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3  Allen  Court, Worcester,Mass. 


Agents  for  Berkshire  and  Worcester  Counties 


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Oldest  Daily  in  Northern  Berkshire 
HAGGERTY  BROS.,  Proprietors 


PLACE 


L.    M.    BARNES 

is  a  distinct  landmark  in  the  North  Berk- 
shire business  world.  He  has  conducted 
the  jewelry  business  in  the  same  store  in 
which  he  is  now  located  in  the  Wilson 
block  on  Main  street  since  the  building  was 
completed  in  1865.  There  are  few,  if  any, 
men  in  this  city  who  have  been  in  busi- 
ness so  long,  and  not  one  who  has  done 
business  in  the  same  store  for  such  a 
length  of  time.  And  Mr.  Barnes  has  made 
a  record  in  more  than  one  sense.  He  has 
not  only  done  business  in  the  same  store 
for  more  than  a  generation,  but  he  has 
done  it  in  'a.  way  to  gain  and  retain  the 
confidence  of  the  public  to  an  exceptional 
degree,  and  he  stands  today  as  an  honored 
veteran  in  the  ranks  of  the  business  men 
of  North  Adams  and  Northern  Berkshire. 


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BOSTON  STORE 

67-71  Main  Street  and  4-10-12  Holden  Street 
NORTH    ADAMS,     MASS. 

THE  PROGRESSIVE  DEPARTMENT  STORE,  striving  always  to  keep  up 
to  the  highest  standard  of  excellence,  maintaining  at  all  times  complete  and  abso- 
lutely dependable  stocks  of  merchandise  only,  that  old  customers  may  be  content 
to  rely  upon  us,  and  that  new  store  friends  are  constantly  being  made* 

Our  service,  it  is  said,  is  not  excelled  anywhere  outside  the  larger  commercial 
centers — and  this  is  our  aim.  We  believe  we  can  serve  you  in  a  perfectly  satisfac- 
tory manner  with  Dry  Goods,  Ready-to-Wear  Garments,  Trimmings,  Neckwear, 
Underwear,  Small  Wares,  Kitchen  Furnishings,  Etc* 

Our  guarantee  of  satisfaction  goes  with  each  sale. 


W.    H.    BUZZ  ELL, 


Manager 


NORTH  ADAMS,  MASSACHUSETTS 


The  above  group  are  the  employees  of  the  firm  of  J.  F.  COLLINS  &  CO., 
enterprising  cigar  manufacturers  and  jobbers  of  tobacco.  Established  in 
February,  1890,  by  John  F.  Collins  of  North  Adams,  who  has  since  passed 
away.  In  September,  1908,  the  firm  changed  hands  and  now  consists  of  J.  J. 
McDonough  and  M.  J.  Collins.  The  new  firm  have  opened  up  considerable 
new  territory  and  bear  the  proud  distinction  of  being  the  largest  industry  of 
this  kind  in  Berkshire  County.  They  have  built  up  a  reputation  for  quality 
goods  and  are  makers  of  the  popular  7-30-4  10-cent  cigar,  Banker  and  Nickel- 
In  5-cent  cigars.  Mr  McDonough  of  the  firm  is  a  hustling  and  energetic 
young  bnsiness  man  having  full  management  of  the  firm's  affairs.  He  has 
also  been  an  active  worker  for  the  success  of  Old  Home  Week. 


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CUTTING  CORNER 

"The  Home  of  Good  Clothes" 


C.  H.  CUTTING  &  CO 

Established  1870 


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NORTH  ADAMS,  MASSACHUSETTS 


RELIABLE 
STORE 


TUTTLE 


BRYANT 


ESTABLISHED 
IN  1867 


Our  Assortment  of 

TAILOR-MADE  SUITS 
Costumes  Wraps  Robes 

WAISTS 

Laces  and  Hamburgs 
Ribbons,   Gloves  and   Neckwear 

DRESS  GOODS  and  SILKS 

Hosiery  and  Corsets 

Dainty  Muslin  Underwear,  Etc., 

is  unsurpassed  in  this  city. 


YOUR   INSPECTION    OF   OUR  LINES 
IS  RESPECTFULLY  SOLICITED 

Our  Showing  of 

CARPETS 

Domestic      and     Oriental     Rugs 

LACE  CURTAINS 
Door    and   Window    Panels 

PORTIERES 

Upholstery  Materials 

WALL  PAPERS 

Printed  and  Inlaid  Linoleum 
Mattings,  Etc* 

Is    the    Most   Complete   Line    in 
Western  Massachusetts 


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]  J.H.CODY 

2O-28  Eagle  Street 


Furniture  Dealer 


Undertaker 


Founder  of  the  largest  Furniture  House 

and  Undertaking  Establishment. 
Established   1884.     A  leading  merch- 
ant of  North  Adams. 


"Read  not  to  contradict  and  confute, 
Neither  to  believe  and  take  for  granted, 
But  to  weigh  and  consider." 

THE  EVERETT  PIANO  represents  all  that  is  best  of  human 
endeavor  in  Piano  construction  on  broadest  and  most  advanced 
ideas,  from  their  smallest  upright  to  the  Concert  Grand  used  by  the 
World's  Professional  Pianists,  who  pronounce  the  Everett  to  be 
excelled  by  none. 


The  confidence  the  Everett   Manufacturers  have    in  their  Piano  is  proven  by  the  life-long  g-uarantee 

that  they  give  with  every  piano. 

The  W,  S,  Underwood  Co,,  18  HoldenSt,, 

North  Adams,  Mass.,  are  the  factory  distributors  of  the  EVERETT  PIANOS  for 
this  district,  having  been  in  the  piano  business  for  the  past  24  years.  Mr.  W.  S. 
Underwood  came  to  North  Adams  from  Brattleboro,  Vt.,  where  he  was  connected 
with  the  Estey  Organ  Co.  for  8  years,  in  their  office,  has  travelled  extensively  for 
piano  companies  wholesaling,  with  a  thorough  factory  knowledge.  Any  piano 
bought  from  W.  S.  Underwood  Co.  will  be  just  as  represented. 


NORTH  ADAMS,  MASSACHUSETTS 


PRATT  BROTHERS 


The  OLDEST  as  well  as  the  most  RELIABLE  shoe  house  in 
North  Adams.  This  firm's  business  was  founded  by  William  Martin 
in  1877,  PRATT  BROTHERS  taking  one-half  interest  in  1882  under  the 
firm  name  of  William  Martin  &  Co.,  buying  William  Martin's  interest 
and  succeeding  to  the  present  firm  name  of  Pratt  Brothers  in  1892. 
This  firm  carries  only  the  best  and  most  reliable  lines  of  Shoes,  and 
have  the  Reputation  of  being  Honest  and  dealing  squarely.  Any 
shoes  purchased  from  this  firm  with  the  name  of  Pratt  Brothers 
on  them  may  be  relied  upon  as  the  best  shoes  possible  for  the  money, 
any  shoes  purchased  that  are  not  entirely  satisfactory  may  be 
returned  and  your  money  is  cheerfully  refunded.  If  you  want 
shoes  that  are  stylish  and  durable;  if  you  want  shoes  that  can  be 
relied  upon,  that  are  made  upon  honor,  go  to 

60  Main  Street  Reliable  Shoe  Men 

North  Adams,  Mass. 

CITY  flARKET 

Our  Old=Fashioned 
Home=Made  Sausages 

Are  made  just  the  same  and  taste  just 
as  good  as  they  did  30  years  ago,  and 
you  well  remember  how  nice  they 
were  then. 

Everything  to  be  found  in  a  first- 
class  market.  If  you  can't  find  it  here 
it  is  useless  to  look  elsewhere. 


H.  R.  BATEMAN 

Main  Street         =  North  Adams,  Mass. 


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Small   Minds 

HINK  small  thoughts,  the  reason  is  obvious  why 
the  chipmunk  is  not  expected  to  think  as  large 
as  the  elephant. 

All  human  beings  have  minds  and   think 
thoughts— WE  WANT  You  TO  THINK  HARD- 
WARE THOUGHTS  AND  OF  us.     THINK  OF  us  AND 
COME  TO  Us. 

We  sell  HARDWARE,  CUTLERY,  SPORTING    GOODS; 
PAINTS,  GLASS  AND  CEMENT. 
(If  its  metal— we  have  it).     See,  write  or  'phone. 


Carlisle  Hardware  Company 

North  Adams,  Mass. 


Harvey  A,  Gallup  Agency 


(INCORPORATED) 


REAL  ESTATE 
INSURANCE 

Investment  Securities 
and  Steamship  Tickets 


410   NEW    KIMBELL  BLOCK 
Noith  Adams,  Mass. 


APOTHECARY 
HALL 

NEW  K1HBELL  BLOCK 

NORTH  ADAMS,       -      MASS. 
THE  QUALITY  DRUG  STORE 


Particular  people  trade 
here  because  they  know 
the  satisfaction  which 
comes  from  so  doing. 
Those  who  trade  here  find 
everything  right— the 
goods,  the  price  and 
service. 


James  H.  Krum,  Jr.,  Prop. 


NORTH  ADAMS,  MASSACHUSETTS 


A-R-E 
SIX'S 


Based  on  Owner- 
ship of  New  York 
Real  Estate. 


6%  BONDS 
NETTING  6% 

Offered  and  Issued 
by  the 

American  Real  Estate  Co. 

(FOUNDED   1888) 

ASSETS  $11,851,866.07 

CAPITAL  &  SURPLUS  1,753,111.16 

6%  COUPON  BONDS— For  Income  Earning— 
Purchasable  at  par  in  multiples  of  $  1 00. 

6%  ACCUMULATIVE  BONDS— For  Income 
Saving — Purchasable  by  installment  pay- 
ments during  10,  15  or  20  years. 

NEARLY   $4,000,000    PAID    TO   BOND- 
HOLDERS   IN    TWENTY-ONE    YEARS 

For  iurther  particulars  inquire 

FORD    &     MALCOLM 

Dowlin  Bldg.,  No.  Adams 


VISITORS 

WELCOME 

At  North  Adams  Leading  Jew- 
elry, Stationery  and  Art  Stoie 

The  largest  and  most  com- 
plete line  of  Souvenirs  and 
Post  Cards  in  the  City 

L.   E.   HIGLEY 

88  Main  St.,    North  Adams,  Mass 

A  Bigger,  Busier,  Better 
North  Adams 


RICHMOND 
THEATRE 

B.  M.  TAYLOR,  Manager 


Compliments  of 

North  Adams 

Paint  &  Wall 

Paper  Co. 

FRANK    L.   HENNESSY,   Mgr. 


44     STATE     STREET 


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Rice's  Drug  Store 

Cor   Main  and  Eagle  5ts. 
Established   1866 


Drugs,  Medicines  and 
Toilet  Goods 


AGENT  FOR 


Johnson's   Milwaukee 
Celebrated  Chocolates 

CIGARS  — Imported    and 
Domestic 

Cigarettes — all  brands 


Porter  &  Hadfield 

Successors  to  Tower  &  Porter 


Plumbing,  Steam  and 
Hot    Water    Heating. 

Copper,  Brass,  Tin  and 
Sheet     Iron    Workers 

We  employ  none  but    the   best    workmen  and 
our  work  is  always  high  grade 

We  are  also  agents  for  the  celebrated 

Magee  Ranges 
and  Furnaces 

The  standard  for  50  years 


SOEigliSI,.        MAfeiu 


Our  Memory  of 
the  Old  Home 

is  often  a  bit  clouded ;  some  events 
stand  out  above  others.  Few  of  us 
forget  "wash  day"  of  years  ago, 
however,  even  though  it  might  be 
called  a  passing  institution.  People 
of  today  will  not  do  laundry  work  in 
the  old-fashioned  and  primative  man- 
ner of  our  forefathers. 

Up-to-date  Families  Pationiza 
Steam  Laundries 

There  are  any  number  of  good  ones  scattered 
throughout  this  land  of  ours,  but  we  really  think 
perfection  has  been  reached  in  North  Adams. 
where  Henry's  Laundry  stands  out  for  all  that 
is  desirable. 

Everything  that  can  be  done  in  a  laundry  we 
are  prepared  to  do,  and  do  it  right  at  reasonable 
and  conservative  prices.  That's  why  we've 
grown  with  the  city. 

Henry's  Laundry 

Produces  Results 

We  Deliver  the  Goods 


Berkshire  Coal 
&  Grain  Co. 

\  16  Eagle  St.  Tl  Holden  St. 

NORTH  ADAMS,  MASS. 


MAY,  1904— RUFUS  L.  BROWN  and 
GEO.  H.  BEDFORD  formed  a  part- 
nership for  the  purpose  of  selling  an- 
thracite and  bituminous  coal. 

MAY,  J905— Entered  the  Flour,  Grain 
&  Wood  Business  at  116  Eagle  St. 

MAY,  J  907— Built  600-ton  capacity 
coal  pocket  at  Brown  street. 

MAY,  J  909— Purchased  coal  elevator 
and  business  of  J.  W.  Hayden,  3000 
ton, largest  in  Western  Massachusetts 

FIVE  YEARS  GROWTH  — From 
nothing  to  $150,000  business  per 
year.  Our  line:  Anthracite  and  Bi- 
tuminous Coal,  Wood,  Hay,  Straw, 
Grain,  Feeds,  Flour,  Sugar,  Salt, 
Cement,  Lime,  Fertilizer. 


NORTH  ADAMS,  MASSACHUSETTS 


STANDARD  MERCANTILE  GO. 

C.V.  W.Jayne,  Manager 
27  EAGLE  STREET,        'PHONE  85  and  86 


IMPORTERS  AND 
ROASTERS  OF 


Royal  and  Standard 

Blend  Coffees 


Fancy  and  Staple    Groceries 

"There's 
a.  Reason" 


Why  we  have  es- 
tablished so  large 
a  trade  in  a  short 
time*  Best  quality 
prompt  service, 
reasonable  price* 


M.  VAN   NESS    BRAMAN 

155-159  RIVER  STREET 


HARRY  O.  Clark  Wm.  R.  Clark 

MODEL  LAUNDERING  60, 

ESTABLISHED   1891 

27HOLDENST,,    46  LINCOLN  ST. 


Fine  Laundering 

Family  Washing  and 
Ironing 

Hotel,  Resturant  and  Barber 
Shop  Work 

Carpets  and  Rugs  steam 
cleaned ;  Mattrasses, 
Feathers,  Blankets  and 
Quilts  cleaned  by  our  sani- 
tary process.  OLDEST 
ESTABLISHED  CLEAN- 
ERS IN  THE  CITY. 

BEST  WORK  AND    SERVICE 

TELEPHONE  307-1 


P.  J.  MALONE 

DRUGGIST    AND    APOTHECARY 


SPECIAL  PREPARATIONS 

LUZON  HAIR  TONIC 

DR.  MCLAUGHLIN'S  TOOTH  POWDER 

BEEF,  IRON  AND  WINE 


PRESCRIPTION     BUSINESS    ALWAYS    A 
PLEASURE 


17   Eagle    Street 

North  Adams,  Mass. 


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I 


F  YOU  consider  it  worth 
while  to  appear  somewhat 
differently  dressed  than 
is  the  great  majority, 
you  can  find  much  to  interest  you 
at  this  house. 

We  submit  for  your  selection 
many  beautiful  designs  in  Eng- 
lish, Irish  and  Scotch  Woolens 
that  can  be  had  nowhere  else  in 
this  city. 

J.A.McCann 

For  Over  a  Quarter  of  a  Century 
Designer  and  Cutter  for  This  House 

P,  J,  BOLANO  CO,     P,  J,  BOUND  CO, 

J  7  W.  30th  St.  Main  &  Bank  Sts. 

New  York  North  Adams 

Potter  Brothers 
&  Company 

Wholesale  and  Retail 
Dealers  in 

Flour t   Grain,  Hay,  Straw 
and    Poultry    Supplies* 
Agents  for  A  Ipha  Port- 
land  Cement. 


PIANOS  AND 
ORGANS 

Pianos  From  $175  to  $650 


Agents  for  the  Cecilian 
Piano  and  Cecilian  Player. 
Victor  Machines,  $10  to 
$200.  — -  New  Records 
Every  Month.  Sheet 
Music.  A  Full  Line  of 
Small  Goods. 


Cluett&Sons 

J6-J8  State  Street 
North  Adams     -  Mass. 

L  A.Weston 


Steam,  Water  and 
Mill  Supplies. 
Plumbing,  Steam, 
Tin  and  Sheet  Iron 
Work. 


Telephone  Call  35 

63-7  \  Morris  Street 

North  Adams,  Mass. 


SHOW  ROOMS 

23  Eagle  St.,  North  Adams,  Mass. 
2  Dean  St.,  Adams,  Mass. 

Telephone  Connection 


NORTH  ADAMS,  MASSACHUSETTS 


!leHoughtonville 
Store  and  Market 


EXTRA  CHOICE  FRESH  AND 

SALT  MEATS. 
FANCY    TABLE  SUPPLIES 

We  make   a  Specialty   of  Native 
Poultry.    Otrr  own  Cured  Hams. 
The  very  best  Creamery  But- 
ter and  strictly  Fresh  Eggs 

Our  stock  is  second   to  none   in 
the  City  and  prices  reasonable 


J.  H.  GRIFFIN,  Proprietor 
Cor.  North  &  Houghton  Sts. 

'PHONE   CONNECTIONS 

BE  SURE  TO  VISIT 
OUR   MARKET    OLD 
HOME  WEEK  

F  ET  os  renew  old  acquaintanceship 
— we  extend  a  hearty  welcome  to 
you  all— you'll  find  everything  just  as 
tasty  "and  palatable  as  in  the  days  of 
long  ago. 

Yours  truly, 

Stockwell  &  Rosston 

THE  FIRST  QUALITY 

Heat  and  Provision  Dealers  cf 
the  City 

SATISFACTION  GUARANTEED 


29    Main    Street, 

NORTH  ADAflS,  HASS. 


Mabel  L.  Saxton 

Caterer  and  Confectioner 

Ice  Cream 
College  Ices 

FINEST    SELECTION    OF 

CHOCOLATES    AND 

CANDY 

LUNCHES   SERVED 


9O    Main   Street 

North  Adams,   Mass. 

Livermore 
Lunch 

TRY  OUR 

25  Cent  Dinner 

BEST  IN  THE  CITY 


Creams  and  Ices  Our  Own  Make 


16  BANK  STREET 

NORTH  ADAMS,  MASS. 


T   -      k^U 

LAincn 


Corner  Ashland 

and  Main  sts. 


ALL  PASTRY  SERVED  OUR 
OWN  MAKE 


QUICK  SERVICE 


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R.  G.  Millard 
Undertaker 

5  Eagle  St., 

North  Adams 

Phone  259-2 


Compliments  of 

Massachusetts 
Talc  Co. 

Miners  and  Millers  of 

TALCUM    POWDER 

Mines  at  Rowe,  Mass. 

Mills  at  Zoar,  Mass. 

Frederick   K.  Daggett,  Treasurer  and 
General  Manager 


Compliments  of 

JAHES  J.  KIELY 

Stained   and   Leaded   Glass  Works 

For  Interior  and  Exterior  Decorations 
Beautify  your  Home  with  our  Leaded  Art  Glass 


113  Thomas  St.        Worcester,  Mass. 


NORTH  ADAMS,  MASSACHUSETTS 


WHITNEY    BROTHERS 


Contractors  and 
General   Jobbers 


Dealers  in  Blue  and  White   Building  Stones 
Raising  and   Moving    Buildings  [a  Specialty 


Telephone  127 


NORTH  ADAMS, 


MASSACHUSETTS 


The     Burlingame    &     Darbys    Co. 

WHOLESALE  and     RETAIL    DEALERS    IN    DRUGS/:  PAINTS    AND   OILS,    NORTH    ADAMS 

In"  1839  Salmon  Burlingame  bought  of  Dr.  Nor- 
manra  'drug  store  located  on  the  north  side  of  Main 
street,  in  a  small  "one-story  [ building.  At  that  time 
his  stock  consisted  of  drug's  and  medicines.  Later 
he  added  paints,  oils,  hardware,  mill  supplies»  and 
building  material.  For  eight  years  he  conducted 
this  store  alone.  1847  Mr.  [Burlingame  admitted 
to  partnership  Mr.  Geo.  W.  Bradford.  Mr.  Bradford 
at  that  time  purchased  of  Edward  Richmond  the 
property  in  which  the  store  was  located.  In  1850 
Mr.  Bradford  sold  his  interest  to  Addison  J.  Ray  and 
the  firm  removed  across  the  street  to  the  E.  South- 
wick  building.  In  1857  it  was  partly  burned  and 
later  Burlingame  &  Ray  purchased  the  property  and 
built  a  three-story  brick  block  in  which  the  business 
is  now  located.  Upon  the  retirement  of  Mr.  Ray  in 
1868  Mr.  Burlingame  became  sole  owner  of  the 
real  estate  and  by  the  admission  of  Geo.  M.  Darby 
the  firm  was  changed  to  Burlingame  &  Darby  and 
later  Frank  M.  Darby  became  one  of  the  firm,  both 
of  whom  had  previously  served  as  clerks.  Mr. 
Burlingame  died  Feb.  [24,  1882.  After  Mr.  Burl- 
ingame's  death  Mr/Geo.  M.  Darby  became  the  ac- 
tive manager  until  1898jwhen  it  was  incorporated 
with  Geo.  M.  Darby  president,  Cynthia  E.  Dumville 
vice  president,  W.  E.r[Orton  treasurer,  Sidney  A. 
Plumb  secretary /!'  The  business  has  constantly  de- 
veloped and  today  carries  a  larger  assortment  of  first- 
quality  merchandise  than  ever  before. 


SALMON  EURLINGAME 


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Established  1887  Relocated  J90J 

HASTINGS'  PHARMACY 


Intelligent 
Application 
to  Business 


Courtesy 
to  our 
Customers 


INTERIOR    VIEW 

RICHMOND    HOTEL    CORNER 

State  and  Nlain.  Streets 

North   Adams, 


AN  Unbroken  Service 
of  more  than  thirty 
years  has  developed  the 
"Boland"  quality  in  clothes, 
hand  in  hand  with  the 
growth  and  advancement  of 
our  city* 

Mr,  Boland  is  still  active- 
ly engaged  in  the  mainten- 
ance of  the  deserved  repu- 
tation that  has  resulted. 
He  will  most  cordially  wel- 
come all  old  friends  and  ac- 
quaintances who  will  return 
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O  THE  men  and  women,  firms  and 
corporations  of  North  Adams  who 
so  liberally  responded  to  our  call 
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who  have  taken  space  in  the  souvenir 
book,  served  on  the  various  commit- 
tees, or  in  any  other  manner  assisted  in 
making";  North  Adams  Old  Home  Week  an 
event  worthy  of  the  best  traditions  of  North 
Adams,  to  you  we  extend  our  sincere  and 
heartfelt  thanks. 


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,  D.  STAFFORD,  President 


NORTH     ADAMS 
MASSACHUSETTS 


OFFICIAL 
SOUVENIR  BOOK 

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Issued    by    the    Publicity    Committee    of 
North     Adams 


NORTH  ADAMS:  ITS  HISTORY 


Prepared  for  Old   Home  Week   Souvenir  by 
Attorney  M.  C.  Flaherty 


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all  other  communities,  North  Adams  has  passed  through 
a  process  of  evolution.  From  a  pine-covered  wilderness  it 
evolved  into  a  straggling  and  poverty-stricken  hamlet, 
offering  its  inhabitants  no  means  of  livlihood  save  those 
afforded  by  the  forest  and  the  farm.  Time  and  industry  caused 
the  hamlet  to  evolve  into  the  largest  town  in  the  United  States, 
and  the  town  at  length  developed  into  the  city  of  today  with  its 
many  and  varied  industries  and  its  well  regulated  system  of 
government. 

No  detailed  history  of  North  Adams  is  here  intended,  for  to 
attempt  to  give  an  adequate  account  of  one-hundred  and  sixty 
years  of  growth  in  a  book  of  this  character  would  be  absurd. 

The  aim  of  this  publication  is  simply  to  bring  to  public  atten- 
tion some  of  the  more  important  happenings  in  the  life  of  North 
Adams  and  to  note  some  of  the  features  which  make  North  Adams 
the  attractive  and  prosperous  community  it  is  today. 

SOME  FACTS  CONCERNING  THE  CITY'S  EARLIEST  YEARS 

In  the  year  1749,  complying  with  the  order  of  the  general 
court  of  Massachusetts,  a  tract  of  land  at  the  foot  of  the  Hoosac 
Mountain  was  explored  and  surveyed,  through  what  was  then,  for 
the  most  part,  a  wilderness  of  huge  pine  trees;  the  exploring  party 
mapped  out  a  township  seven  miles  long  from  north  to  south  and 
five  miles  broad  from  east  to  west.  To  this  entire  territory  was 
given  the  name  of  East  Hoosac.  The  following  year  (1750)  Captain 
Ephraim  Williams  obtained  from  the  Massachusetts  government 
a  grant  of  two  hundred  acres  of  land  in  East  Hoosac,  in  consideration 
for  which  he  bound  himself  to  "build  a  grist  and  saw  mill  within 
two  years  on  the  Hoosac  River  and  to  keep  the  same  in  repair 
for  twenty  years."  These  mills  were  built  by  Captain  Williams 
at  North  Adams  near  the  present  site  of  the  Hunter  machine  shop 
above  the  Main  Street  bridge.  In  the  township  of  East  Hoosac 


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lots  of  one  hundred  acres  were  laid  out,  settlers  admitted,  and  on 
October  15,  1778,  a  town  was  incorporated  which  took  the  name  of 
Adams  in  honor  of  Samuel  Adams,  the  great  revolutionary  leader. 

The  patriotism  of  the  early  settlers  is  evidenced  not  only  by  the 
name  chosen  for  their  town  but  also  by  their  liberal  contributions 
to  the  revolutionary  cause.  A  few  examples  from  the  town  records 
will  show  how  intensely  the  desire  for  liberty  burned  in  the  hearts 
of  those  hardy  settlers. 

Thus  in  June  20,  1780  is  this  entry,  Voted;  ' 'that the  town  will 
raise  money  by  a  tax  to  hire  their  quota  of  soldiers  to  serve  in  the 
Continental  army  six  months." 

May  15,  1781,  Voted:  "to  lay  a  tax  on  the  town  of  300  pounds 
for  the  purpose  of  procuring  a  stock  of  ammunition." 

July  19,  1781,  Voted:  "that  each  soldier  engaged  to  serve  in 
the  Continental  army  three  months  shall  receive  from  the  town  of 
Adams  the  sum  of  four  pounds  for  each  month  he  shall  serve,  to  be 
paid  in  silver  or  in  grain." 

In  those  early  days  the  south  end  of  Adams  had  ten  times  as 
many  inhabitants  as  the  north  end,  or  what  is  now  North  Adams. 
The  land  to  the  south  was  much  better  for  farming  and  North  Adams 
would  probably  never  have  surpassed  the  south  of  the  town  in  growth 
except  for  the  more  extensive  water  power.  It  was  this  great  water 
power  which  first  enticed  settlers  to  the  northern  portion  of  the 
town,  now  the  city  of  North  Adams.  Certainly  there  was  little 
else  then  to  attract  the  farmers  to  locate  here. 

As  has  been  stated,  the  site  of  North  Adams  was  originally 
a  pine  forest.  Therefore,  for  a  long  time,  the  principal  staple  of 
traffic  was  lumber;  but  when  the  trees  were  finally  cleared  away 
their  large  stumps  and  roots  greatly  impeded  gardening,  farming 
and  building  operations.  Moreover,  in  those  days,  the  streams  and 
rivers  contained  a  much  greater  volume  of  water  than  now  and 
each  spring  the  rivers — swollen  beyond  bounds  by  the  melting 
of  the  heavy  snows  of  one  hundred  and  fifty  years  ago — flowed  down 
into  the  valley  wrecking  everything  in  their  way,  and  carrying  logs 
and  huge  boulders  into  what  is  now  the  principal  part  of  the  city. 

For  these  reasons  the  first  farmers  wisely  preferred  to  settle  in 
the  south  of  the  township,  and  up  to  1785  there  were  but  five  dwell- 
ings in  what  is  now  North  Adams.  But  men  are  ever  loath  to  yield 
to  the  obstacles  placed  in  their  path  by  nature,  so  in  spite  of  the 
stubborn  soil  and  the  meddlesome  disposition  of  the  Hoosac  River 
to  sweep  away  civilization,  the  northern  settlement  continued  to 
grow.  In  1795  there  were  a  dozen  dwellings  in  the  village,  the 


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principal  land  owners  being  Jeremiah  Colgrove,  Sr.,  Israel  Jones, 
David  Estes  and  David  Darling. 

The  first  store  for  the  sale  of  groceries  in  North  Adams  was 
kept  by  William  Farrand.  He  hauled  his  goods  from  Boston  by 
ox-team  and  therefore  of  necessity  his  stock  was  exceedingly  meagre. 
But  if  the  amount  of  his  stock  was  small  his  prices  were  not,  as 
a  single  entry,  "one  bag  of  salt,  price  $10.00,  sold  to  Captain  Shippee 
of  Clarksburg,"  will  suffice  to  show. 

The  early  merchants  in  this  young  community  did  not  prosper 
for  the  reason  that  the  traders  of  Williamstown  undersold  them 
and  carried  a  greater  variety  of  goods.  The  hardy  villagers  cared 
nothing  for  the  rough  roads  and  cheerfully  walked  the  five  miles 
to  Williamstown  to  save  a  few  cents  on  their  purchases. 

At  a  date  unrecorded,  two  men,  whose  names  are  also  un- 
recorded, opened  the  first  dry  goods  store  near  the  Main  Street 
bridge.  It  required  only  two  months  to  convince  them  that  what- 
ever the  future  of  North  Adams  would  be,  it  was  at  that  time  a  poor 
place  for  business.  Accordingly  the  two  traders  departed. 

During  the  first  half  century  of  the  town's  existence  the  entire 
number  of  stores  kept  at  different  times  was  only  thirteen.  The 
scarcity  of  money  made  bartering  or  "swapping"  necessary  and  a 
man  who  had  $25.00  in  cash  was  regarded  as  a  capitalist.  It  is 
recorded  that  up  to  the  year  1825  no  man  with  $2,000  in  ready  cash 
ever  settled  here  so  that  industrial  progress  was  very  gradual. 

But  though  the  growth  of  North  Adams  was  slow  it  was  none 
the  less  sure.  One  by  one  small  mills  and  factories  were  built  as 
the  value  of  the  water  power  in  this  section  became  more  fully 
realized  and  appreciated. 

DIVISION  OF  ADAMS  AND  NORTH  ADAMS 

By  reason  of  this  superior  water  power  the  north  village  at 
length  outstripped  her  southern  sister  in  population.  The  diverse 
interests  of  the  two  villages  and  the  inconvenience  to  voters  finally 
led  to  a  division  of  the  town  in  April  1878,  the  first  town  meeting 
of  North  Adams  being  held  April  24,  1878,  in  what  is  now  Odd  Fel- 
lows' Hall.  After  starting  on  her  independent  career  North  Adams 
continued  to  grow  and  prosper  until,  in  the  early  nineties  it  had 
gained  the  distinction  of  being  the  largest  town  in  the  United  States. 

CITY  GOVERNMENT  ADOPTED 

So  populous  had  North  Adams  become  that  the  town  meeting 
system  became  unwieldy  and  in  the  year  1895  it  was  decided  to 
adopt  a  city  form  of  government.  North  Adams  began  its  career 


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as  a  city  on  Monday,  Jan.  6,  1896,  with  twenty-one  of  the  most 
prominent  and  respected  men  of  the  community  serving  as  council- 
men  and  the  Hon.  Albert  C.  Houghton  occupying  the  office  of  mayor. 

THE  CITY  CHARTER 

The  charter  of  the  new  city  was  the  result  of  the  careful  work 
of  municipal  experts  in  New  York  and  Boston.  So  practical  and 
effective  for  good  government  has  it  proved  to  be  that  many  of  its 
provisions  have  been  embodied  in  the  charters  of  other  cities. 
The  centralization  of  authority  and  responsibility  for  executive 
action  in  the  mayor,  the  complete  separation  of  the  executive  and 
legislative  departments,  and  the  minority  representation  in  the 
council,  are  some  of  the  points  of  excellence. 

CITY  OFFICIALS 

Under  this  charter  the  city  officials  are  a  mayor,  twenty-one 
councilmen  and  a  school  committee  of  six  members,  two  being  elected 
each  year  for  a  term  of  three  years.  The  city  officials  to  be  elected 
by  the  people  are  put  upon  one  ballot  and  are  voted  for  by  the 
whole  body  of  citizens  the  same  as  town  officers  are  chosen.  With 
the  exception  of  the  city  clerk  and  auditor  the  mayor  appoints  the 
heads  of  all  departments  and  has  power  to  remove  them  for  cause 
stated  in  writing  and  engrossed  upon  the  puplic  records.  The  mayor 
is  chosen  for  a  term  of  one  year.  He  cannot  borrow  or  spend  money 
for  the  city  or  in  any  way  obligate  it  financially.  Chosen  by  the 
people  he  is  directly  responsible  to  them  and  to  no  other  power. 

THE  CITY  COUNCIL 

This  body  represents  the  city  in  all  but  executive  matters. 
The  council  is  composed  of  twenty-one  members,  seven  of  whom  are 
elected  each  year  to  serve  for  a  term  of  three  vears.  The  council  on 
the  first  day  of  April  each  year  appropriates  and  apportions  the 
money  for  the  year's  expenditures.  *  Except  by  a  three-fourths 
vote  they  cannot  at  any  time  appropriate  money  to  exceed  the  sum 
of  $200.00.  No  bill  can  be  paid  by  the  city  treasurer  until  it  is 
certified  by  the  auditor,  whose  duty  it  is  to  learn  that  such  bills 
have  been  properly  contracted  and  that  their  specific  appropriation 
has  not  been  used  up.  If  the  appropriation  is  exhausted  the  bill 
cannot  be  approved.  This  is  a  safeguard  of  great  value  to  the  tax- 
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MAYORS  OF  NORTH  ADAMS 

During  its  comparatively  brief  career  as  a  city  North  Adams 
has  been  singularly  fortunate  in  the  choice  of  its  chief  executives. 
All  of  them  have  been  men  of  business  ability  and  sterling  worth, 
and  all  of  them  have  given  cheerfully  their  time  and  best  endeavors 
to  the  service  of  the  city.  The  following  is  a  list  of  the  men  who 
have  been  thus  far  honored  by  election  to  the  first  office  in  the  gift 
of  the  citizens  of  North  Adams: 

HON.  ALBERT  C.  HOUGHTON 

1896-1897 
HON.  H.  TORREY  CADY 

1898-1899 
HON.  EDWARD  S.  WILKINSON 

1900-1901-1902 
HON.  MARSHALL  R.  FORD 

1905-1906 
HON.  FRANK  D.  STAFFORD 

1903-1904;   1907-1908 

HON.  JOHN  H.  WATERHOUSE 

1909 

VIEWS  ABOUT  NORTH  ADAMS. 

Some  of  the  natural  beauties  surrounding  North  Adams  have 
been  spoken  of,  it  remains  to  give  a  glimpse  of  the  city  itself.  From 
no  one  point  can  an  adequate  sight  of  the  entire  city  be  obtained. 
Perhaps  the  best  partial  view  may  be  had  from  High  street,  just 
above  the  little  tunnel.  Standing  there  a  person  may  behold 
Main  street,  well  paved  and  lined  on  either  side  along  its  entire 
length  by  brick  and  marble  business  blocks.  At  the  head  of  this 
street  is  Monument  Square,  upon  which  face  the  Houghton  Memorial 
Library  building  and  the  Baptist  and  Congregational  churches. 
Beyond  this  square  and  up  the  hill  are  the  handsome  residences  of 
many  of  the  business  and  professional  men  of  the  city.  South  from 
Monument  Square  leads  Church  street,  whose  spacious  dwellings 
and  well-kept  grounds  give  ample  evidence  of  the  taste  and  wealth 
which  created  them.  Looking  along  down  Church  street  the  eye 


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One  of  the  City's  Beauty  Spots 


sees  the  Mark  Hopkins  school  and  a  little  further  on  the  State  Normal 
School  standing  upon  an  eminence,  a  picture  of  stateliness  and  sim- 
plicity. Looking  northward  from  Monument  Square  the  visitor 
sees  the  Methodist  and  Irish-Catholic  churches  and  fine  clusters  of 
business  and  residential  houses.  Above  on  a  slight  hill  is  Drury 
High  School,  and  just  below  a  delightful  green  plot  of  land  indi- 
cates the  site  of  Colgrove  Park,  a  beautiful  breathing  place  for  tired 
women  and  children  during  the  hot  afternoons  of  summer.  On 
all  the  hillside  streets,  leading  into  the  city  the  stranger  will  see 
tenement  dwellings  and  snug  cottages  with  their  little  gardens 
and  fruit  trees  at  the  rear.  Everywhere  about  the  central  portion 
of  the  city  the  visitor  perceives  the  tall  chimneys  and  the  huge  bulks 
of  the  various  factories  from  which  is  derived  the  prosperity  of  the 
city.  One  thing,  however,  the  visitor  viewing  the  city  will  look  for 
in  vain,  that  is  a  slum  section.  North  Adams  has  no  slum  district 
and  it  is  the  hope  of  the  community  that  North  Adams  will  long 
be  spared  this  plague  spot  which  works  so  much  evil  in  bigger  and 
more  densely  populated  cities. 


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DOWN  CHURCH  STREET 
In  the  Fine  Residential  District 

The  Berkshire  Hills,  among  which  nestles  the  city  of  North 
Adams,  are  famous  the  world  over  for  their  beauty.  Writers  of 
note,  such  as  Thoreau,  Bryant,  and  Beecher,  have  been  enraptured 
by  our  mountain  scenery.  Hawthorne,  the  great  prose  master, 
while  writing  one  of  his  stories,  passed  some  time  in  this  vicinity, 
and  like  all  lovers  of  nature  was  entranced  by  the  beauty  of  the 
valleys  and  the  grandeur  of  the  surrounding  mountains.  From 
his  pen  we  take  the  following  vivid  word  picture : 

"Often  it  would  seem  a  wonder  how  our  road  was  to  continue, 
the  mountains  rose  so  abruptly  on  either  side,  and  stood  so  directly 
a  wall  across  our  onward  course;  while  looking  behind  it  would 
be  an  equal  mystery  how  we  had  gotten  thither,  through  the  huge 
base  of  the  mountain  that  seemed  to  have  reared  itself  erect  after 
our  passage.  Between  the  mountains  there  were  gorges  that  led 
the  imagination  away  into  new  scenes  of  wildness.  I  have  never 
driven  through  such  romantic  scenery,  where  there  was  such  a 
variety  and  boldness  of  mountain  shapes  as  this,  and  though  it  was 
a  bright,  sunny  day,  the  mountains  diversified  the  view  with  sun- 
shine and  shadow,  and  glory  and  gloom." 


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THE  FAMOUS  HOOSAC  TUNNEL 


One  of  the  Seven  Wonders  of  the  World 

Greylock,  for  all  of  its  massive  bulk,  has  never  stood  in  the  way 
of  industrial  progress  and  so  has  remained  undisturbed  by  man. 
Not  so,  however,  with  its  mate  on  the  east,  the  Hoosac  Mountain. 
For  many  years  that  mammoth  eminence  was  a  stubborn  barrier 
preventing  easy  communication  between  North  Adams  and  points 
to  the  east.  It  was  no  easy  task  to  convey  supplies  over  the  steep 
and  rough  roads  of  the  Hoosac  range,  so  men  began  to  figure  upon 
a  better  way  to  overcome  the  opposition  of  nature.  Since  they 
could  not  conveniently  pass  over  this  barrier  they  decided  to  at- 
tempt to  pass  through  it.  Then  was  conceived  the  idea  of  the 
Hoosac  Tunnel. 

In  1840  the  Troy  &  Greenfield  Railroad  was  chartered  and  plans 
made  for  boring  through  the  great  wall  of  the  mountain.  Some 
experiments  were  tried  which  failed  and  the  colossal  task  was  aban- 
doned for  ten  years.  But  in  1851  the  work  was  again  resumed. 
From  the  summit  of  the  mountain  a  shaft  15  by  27  feet  in  dimensions 
was  sunk  to  a  depth  of  1,028  feet.  A  similar  shaft  was  dug  upon 


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the  western  slope  of  the  mountain.  These  shafts  as  well  as  both 
ends  of  the  tunnel  allowed  work  to  be  done  at  several  different 
places  with  different  forces  of  men.  This  preliminary  work  occupied 
four  years  of  continuous  labor  and  the  expenditure  of  half  a  million 
dollars.  Hundreds  of  men,  for  the  most  part  foreigners,  were 
employed  in  the  construction  of  the  tunnel.  After  the  completion 
of  the  work  the  majority  of  these  men  found  other  employment 
in  North  Adams  and  remained  here.  Many  of  them  and  their 
descendants  are  here  today  and  are  among  the  most  respected 
men  of  the  community. 

Man  does  not  easily  triumph  over  nature,  as  those  who  had 
charge  of  piercing  the  massive  heart  of  the  Hoosac  Mountain  speedily 
found.  The  rock  proved  remarkably  hard  and  successfully  resisted 
the  drills  of  the  miners.  Various  contractors  gave  up  the  work  in 
despair.  The  invention  at  this  time  of  the  powerful  explosive, 
nitro-glycerine,  by  Prof.  George  M.  Mowbray  of  North  Adams, 
greatly  aided  in  the  completion  of  the  task.  At  length  on  a  day 
twenty-five  years  after  the  work  had  been  begun  the  picks  of  the 
workers  from  the  central  shaft  toward  the  west  were  heard  by  the 
men  from  the  west  shaft  working  eastward.  The  engineers  had  been 
accurate  in  their  measurements  and  the  two  passages  joined  with 
only  a  few  inches  discrepancy. 

On  Feb.  9, 1875,  the  first  train  of  cars  passed  through  the  tunnel. 
The  tunnel  was  still,  however,  far  from  completion.  Great  danger 
was  to  be  apprehended  from  falling  rocks.  To  prevent  disaster 
from  this  source  the  tunnel  was  securely  arched;  twenty  million 
bricks  being  required  for  this  work.- 

At  length  in  the  autumn  of  1876  the  tunnel  was  pronounced 
reasonably  safe  for  travel  and  regular  trains  began  to  pass  through 
it.  This  tunnel,  which  is  four  and  three-fourths  miles  long  and 
26  feet  wide  and  26  feet  high  is  equipped  with  a  double  track. 
Twelve  hundred  electric  lights  serve  to  dissipate  the  gloom  of  this 
black  hole,  and  electric  fans  render  the  air  free  from  gas  and  smoke. 
In  the  beginning  it  was  estimated  that  the  total  cost  of  construction 
would  not  exceed  $2,000,000,  yet  the  actual  cost  was  $20,241,842.31. 
Also  195  lives  were  lost  during  the  progress  of  the  work.  At  such 
a  price  as  this  does  commerce  subdue  and  conquer  the  forces  of  nat- 
ure. In  the  days  when  the  tunnel  was  being  constructed  a  con- 
siderable village  was  built  in  its  near  neighborhood,  but  with  the 
completion  of  the  work  and  the  removal  of  the  workmen,  the  vicinity 
was  abandoned  and  in  time  the  dwellings  fell  into  ruin.  All  that 
now  remains  is  the  tunnel  itself,  which  seems  destined  to  continue 
for  all  time, — the  giant  gateway  into  North  Adams  and  a  splendid 
witness  to  the  skill,  perseverance  and  patience  of  American  labor. 


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The  following  few  facts  concerning  the  tunnel  and  its  building 
will  be  of  interest: 


First  proposed  (for  canal)  1819 
Chartered         .         .  1848 

Commenced     .         .  1851 

Headings  met  Nov.  27        1874 
Completed  1875 

Total  length,  feet      .        25,031 
East  end  to  central  shaft, 

feet     .         .         .        12,837 
Central    shaft    to    west 

shaft,  feet    .         .          9,694 
Rock — Mica  slate,  mica 

schist  and  milky  quartz. 
Rock  excavated,  tons  2,000,000 
Height,  feet     .  20 

Width,  feet      .         .  24 

Water    disch.,east    end, 

gal.  per  min.,         .  100 

Water  disch,  west  end, 

gal.  per  min.,         .  600 

Men  employed  800  to  900 

Miles  from  Boston    .  136 

First  train  through,  Feb. 

9th      .         .         .  1875 

First  freight,  April  5  1875 

First  passenger,  Oct.  13      1875 


West  shaft  to  west  end,  ft.  2,500 
Depth  central  shaft,  feet  1,028 
Depth  west  shaft,  feet  318 
Size  central  shaft,  feet  15  x  27 
Size  west  shaft,  feet  10  x  14 
Height  east'rn  summit,  ft.  1,429 
Height  western  summit,  ft.  1,718 
Grade  per  mile  26-40 

Error  in  line  at  points 

of  meeting  .  9-16  in. 
Above  tide  at  east  portal  966 
Total  length  of  brick 

arching         .         .         7,573 
No.    of   bricks   used   in 

arching  20,000,000 

Cost,  $14,000,000 

Lives  lost         .         .  195 

Contractors,  F.  &  W. 

Shanley,  Montreal 
Chief  Civil  Engineer, 

Benj.  D.  Frost. 
Explosive — Tri-nitro  gly- 
cerine. 
One    pound    glycerine 

equal  to  13  of  powder. 


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GREYLOCK  MOUNTAIN 


The  Highest  Point  in  Massachusetts 


To  the  west  of  the  city  is  a  range  of  mountains,  ever  rising 
and  rising  until  the  highest  point  is  reached  upon  the  crest  of  lordly 
Greylock.  This  mountain,  the  loftiest  peak  in  Massachusetts, 
rises  to  an  altitude  of  3,500  feet,  and  stands  in  solemn  grandeur, 
a  sturdy  sentinel  over  North  Adams  and  the  surrounding  towns. 
A  well  graded  road  winds  about  this  mountain  to  its  top,  where  a 
substantial  observatory  has  been  erected  from  which  may  be  ob- 
tained a  splendid  view  of  the  surrounding  country,  and  glimpses 
of  the  Hudson  River  and  the  far-off  Catskill  ranges.  The  scenery 
along  the  drive  up  Greylock  is  wild,  picturesque  and  beautiful. 
No  description  of  it  is  adequate.  To  be  appreciated  it  must  be 
seen  when  the  sun  first  bursts  through  the  mists  of  morning,  or 
when  the  shadows  begin  to  steal  down  from  the  lofty  peaks  into  the 
valleys  and  the  deepening  shades  of  twilight  brood  around. 


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GREYLOCK  STATE  RESERVATION 

Some  twenty  years  ago  there  came  to  public  attention  a  move- 
ment to  reserve  the  lands  which  could  not  be  used  for  agriculture, 
and  to  keep  them  under  the  control  of  the  State  for  the  public 
good  and  pleasure.  Acting  upon  this  idea  the  Trustees  of  Public 
Reservations  formed  themselves  into  a  corporate  body.  Grey  lock 
was  the  first  reservation  to  be  asked  for  by  the  board,  and  the  first 
bill  in  1898  called  for  an  appropriation  of  $25,000  for  the  purchase 
of  land.  The  Greylock  commission  was  appointed  and  the  pur- 
chase of  the  land  was  conducted  on  the  principle  that  the  State 
should  pay  for  the  land  and  the  county  should  pay  for  keeping  up 
the  property.  Appropriations  have  continued  from  time  to  time 
until  the  total  aggregates  $93,000.  The  county  has  thus  far  spent 
in  the  construction  of  roads  and  care  of  the  property  about  $35,000. 
The  success  of  the  Greylock  reservation  and  the  popularity  with 
which  it  was  received  all  over  the  State  has  done  much  in  securing 
various  other  pieces  of  unused  land  throughout  the  State  on  the  same 
principal  of  State  purchase  and  county  development.  Greylock, 
however,  leads  the  list  with  8,187  acres,  more  land  than  is  contained 
in  all  the  other  Massachusetts  state  reservations  combined. 


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NATURAL  BRIDGE  AND  CASCADE 


Two  Points  Well  Worth  Visiting 


A  favorite  Sunday  afternoon  pastime 
of  the  young  people  of  North  Adams 
is  a  trip  to  the  natural  bridge.  This 
miracle  of  nature  is  situated  at  the 
extreme  north  of  the  city.  It  is  a 
ravine  300  feet  long  and  60  feet  wide. 
This  ravine  is  spanned  by  one  bridge  of 
rock  and  the  remains  of  another. 
There  is  evidence  that  the  water  once 
flowed  over  this  bridge.  Hawthorne 
gives  this  description  of  the  place : 

'The  passage  through  the  cave  made 
by  the  stream  is  very  crooked  and 
interrupted,  not  only  by  fallen  rocks, 
but  by  deep  pools'  of  water,  which 
probably  have  been  forded  by  few.  As 
the  deepest  pool  occurs  in  the  most 
uneven  part  of  the  chasm  I  determined 


to  wade  it.  Thus  I  reached  the  me 
interesting  part  of  the  cave,  where  the 
whirlings  of  the  stream  had  left  the 
marks  of  the  eddies  in  the  solid  marble, 
all  up  and  down  the  two  sides  of  the 
chasm.  The  marble  crags  are  over- 
spread with  a  concretion,  which  makes 
them  look  as  gray  as  granite,  except 
where  the  continual  flow  of  water  keeps 
them  of  snowy  whiteness.  At  the  bot- 
tom of  the  broad  chamber  of  the  cave, 
standing  in  its  shadow,  the  effect  of  the 
morning  sunshine  on  the  dark  and  light 
foliage  of  the  pines  and  other  trees 
that  cluster  the  summits  of  the  crags 
was  beautiful,  and  it  was  strange  how 
such  great  trees  had  seemingly  rooted 
themselves  in  solid  marble .  After  pass 
ing  through  the  romantic  and  beau 
tiful  spot  the  stream  goes  onward  t 
turn  factories,  still  making  its  voic 
heard  while  it  labors." 


CHURCHES  AND  SCHOOLS 

High  Standard  Maintained 

One  reason  why  North  Adams  is  not  shamed  by  a  slum  district 
is  because  of  the  high  degree  of  mental  and  moral  development 
that  obtains  among  the  citizens.  Few  cities  of  a  like  size  can  boast 
so  many  and  beautiful  churches  and  schools  as  can  North  Adams. 
Some  account  of  these  institutions  may  here  be  given. 

THE  BAPTIST  CHURCH. 

In  1808  Elder  Calvin  Keyes  organized  a  Baptist  society  with 
a  membership  of  twenty -two  people.  Prior  to  that  time  all  the  citi- 
zens had  worshipped  together  in  a  little  building  which  stood  upon  the 
present  site  of  the  Baptist  Church.  In  1829  this  old  building  was 
removed  and  a  brick  church  erected  in  its  stead.  Because  of  the 
continued  growth  of  the  town  this  church  presently  became  too 
small  to  accommodate  its  congregation  and  in  1848  a  larger  building 
was  begun.  This  when  completed  cost  $15,000  and  had  seating 
capacity  for  1,000  people.  In  May,  1875,  this  church  was  so  badly 
burned  that  its  ruins  were  removed  and  the  present  splendid  edifice 
erected.  This  church  property  is  now  valued  at  one  hundred  thou- 
sand dollars  and  has  a  membership  of  1,500  people.  The  present 
pastor  is  the  Rev.  J.  H.  Spencer. 

ST.  FRANCIS  CHURCH. 

It  is  only  about  sixty  years  ago  that  services  were  first  held  in 
North  Adams  in  behalf  of  Roman  Catholic  residents  of  the  town. 
Since  that  time  the  members  of  that  communion  have  increased 
until  now  they  number  nearly  one  half  of  the  population  of  the 
city. 

In  1856  the  members  of  this  denomination  purchased  the  old 
Methodist  church  on  Center  street,  and  in  1862  the  parish,  under  the 
name  of  St.  Francis  was  organized  and  the  Rev.  Charles 
Lynch  was  appointed  pastor.  In  1865  he  purchased  the  land  at 
the  corner  of  Eagle  and  Union  streets,  and  in  1867  the  corner-stone 
of  the  present  church  was  laid.  Upon  the  death  of  Father  Lynch 
the  Rev.  Charles  E.  Burke  succeeded  to  the  pastorate  and  carried 
on  the  work  of  his  predecessor  with  great  assiduity  and  success. 


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ST.     JOHN'S 


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In  1895  the  parish  bought  the  Arnold  property  on  Eagle  street, 
remodelled  it  and  made  it  a  home  for  its  pastors,  of  which  any 
church  organization  might  well  be  proud.  Upon  the  death  of 
Father  Burke,  which  occurred  in  1908,  the  Rev.  Edward  P.  Dum- 
phy  became  the  pastor  of  St.  Francis  church  and  he  is  the  present 
incumbent  of  that  office. 

THE  METHODIST  CHURCH. 

In  1823  the  Methodist  Church  Society  was  organized  here 
and  became  part  of  the  Petersburg  circuit.  During  the  first  year 
of  the  society's  existence  a  circuit  preacher  came  every  second  Sun- 
day and  delivered  a  sermon  in  Mr.  Tinker's  shop.  In  1824  a  lot 
was  purchased  on  Centre  street  for  $30.  An  unfinished  '  'glass 
factory"  was  removed  to  this  site  and  finished  up  in  a  rude  manner 
as  a  place  of  worship.  In  1842  the  present  lot  on  Church  street 
was  procured  and  a  frame  church  was  erected  upon  it  at  a  cost 
of  $4,000.  This  building  was  used  for  thirty  years  and  was  then 
torn  down  to  make  room  for  the  present  commodious  structure 
which  was  erected  at  a  cost  of  $85,000.  This  church  contains  one 
of  the  finest  organs  in  Western  Massachusetts.  The  church  property, 
including  the  parsonage,  is  estimated  to  be  worth  $125,000.  The 
present  pastor  of  this  church  is  the  Rev.  S.  W.  Erwin. 

ST.  JOHN'S  EPISCOPAL  CHURCH. 

This  parish  was  organized  on  Dec.  11,  1855  by  Rev.  Dr.  William 
Tatlock  and  Stephen  H.  Tyng,  Jr.,  then  students  at  Williams 
College.  In  the  spring  of  1857  St.  John's  became  a  corporation 
under  the  laws  of  this  Commonwealth.  In  1858  a  building  site  on 
Summer  street  was  purchased  and  a  small  church  built.  This 
structure  gave  place  in  1867  to  a  new  and  more  commodious  building. 
In  1890  Rev.  John  C.  Tebbetts  became  rector  and  has  served  in 
that  capacity  from  then  to  the  present  time.  Under  the  able  ad- 
ministration of  Mr.  Tebbetts,  the  rectory  has  been  constructed, 
the  church  enlarged  and  the  parish  house  built.  The  church  and 
parish  house  are  of  Gothic  architecture,  and  are  among  the  most 
notable  structures  of  their  kind  in  Berkshire  County. 

NOTRE  DAME  CHURCH. 

The  employment  in  this  city  of  Canadian  emigrants  began  more 
than  forty  years  ago,  and  in  a  few  years  they  had  become  sufficiently 
numerous  to  require  a  church  of  their  own.  Accordingly  the 


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"Church  of  Our  Lady  of  the  Sacred  Heart"  was  founded  in  the  year 
1871;  the  first  mass  was  celebrated  on  Jan.  6  of  that  year  in  the 
"old  chapel"  on  Centre  street.  This  chapel  was  occupied  for  about 
four  years  when  the  parish  removed  to  the  basement  of  the  present 
beautiful  church  which  crowns  the  crest  of  East  Main  street  and 
which  was  completed  in  1888.  This  church  is  of  Gothic  architecture 
and  is  renowned  for  the  graceful  proportions  of  its  interior,  the 
beauty  of  its  altars  and  the  noble  quality  of  its  organ,  which  is  one 
of  the  best  in  Western  Massachusetts.  This  parish  numbers  about 
5,000  souls,  the  present  pastor  being  the  Rev.  Charles  H.  Jeanotte. 

CONGREGATIONAL  CHURCH. 

The  first  Congregational  society  was  established  far  back  in 
the  early  days  of  the  town  and  was  presided  over  by  a  Rev.  Mr. 
Todd.  After  the  dissolution  of  this  pioneer  society  there  was  no 
organized  church  of  this  denomination  here  until  the  present  one 
was  founded  in  1827.  The  following  year  a  church  was  erected 
which  served  the  needs  of  its  congregation  until  1865  when  the  present 
edifice  was  built  at  a  cost  of  $40,000.  Later  a  parsonage,  chapel  and 
adjoining  properties  were  added  so  that  the  entire  church  property 
is  now  valued  at  $200,000.  This  society  numbers  about  800  mem- 
bers. The  present  pastor  is  the  Rev.  T.  E.  Busfield. 

THE  UNIVERSALIST  CHURCH. 

This  church  was  organized  in  North  Adams  on  April  9,  1842. 
For  a  time  the  society  occupied  quarters  on  Centre  street,  and  in 
1851  a  church  was  built  on  State  street  where  the  Wellington  Hotel 
now  stands.  In  1893  the  handsome,  modern  church  on  Summer 
street  was  erected  and  a  fine  pipe  organ  installed. 

This  church  property  including  the  parsonage  is  valued  at 
about  $50,000.  Rev.  G.  M.  Gerrish  is  the  pastor. 

THE  JEWISH  SYNAGOGUE. 

This  society  of  Russian  Hebrews  was  organized  in  1890,  and 
the  synagogue  was  erected  four  years  later  at  a  cost  of  about  $5,000. 
For  an  organization  of  recent  origin  it  has  a  surprisingly  large  mem- 
bership, which  gives  every  indication  of  increasing  as  the  growth  of 
the  city  is  bringing  larger  and  larger  numbers  of  this  thrifty  class 
of  people  into  the  community. 


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ST.  ANTHONY  OF  PADUA  CHURCH. 

For  the  past  decade  the  Italian  population  of  this  city  has  been 
so  numerous  as  to  feel  the  need  of  a  place  of  worship  of  their  own. 
Accordingly  in  1906  an  extensive  plot  of  ground  was  purchased  on 
Holden  street,  and  the  church  of  St.  Anthony  of  Padua  was  erected. 
This  church  is  a  quaintly  beautiful  little  structure  situated  well 
back  from  the  noise  of  the  street,  the  parsonage  occupying  the 
front  portion  of  the  premises.  This  congregation  numbers  about 
1,500  souls  and  the  present  pastor  is  the  Rev.  Joseph  Nardow. 

CHRISTIAN  SCIENCE  CHURCH 

Eleven  years  ago  the  members  of  this  belief  met  one  evening 
at  the  home  of  J.  H.  Orr  and  formed  themselves  into  an  organized 
body.  At  first  their  meetings  were  held  in  the  Grand  Army  hall 
and  later  in  rooms  at  the  Berkshire  Hotel.  The  organization  con- 
tinued to  prosper  and  about  two  years  ago  the  members  determined 
to  procure  a  building  of  their  own  in  which  to  hold  services.  Ac- 
cordingly the  brick  structure  situated  on  Chestnut  street  which  for- 
merly did  service  as  a  school  was  purchased.  The  building  is 
plain  and  neat  in  design  and  has  a  fine  stretch  of  lawn  in  front  of  it. 
This  organization  now  numbers  about  fifty  people.  The  board  of 
directors  of  the  society  are:  Mrs.  Geo.  W.  Dox,  president;  Miss 
Josephine  Fuller,  Miss  Mattie  McDonald,  Miss  Maud  Jentz  and 
Eugene  Francher.  The  treasurer  of  the  society  is  W.  H.  Orr,  and 
the  clerk  is  J.  H.  Orr. 

SECOND  BAPTIST  CHURCH 

This  is  an  organization  which  was  formed  about  two  years  ago 
and  which  embraces  a  large  portion  of  the  negro  population  of  the 
city.  For  a  time  this  congregation  held  services  in  the  Wellington 
Hall  and  later  removed  to  a  building  on  Washington  avenue. 
At  present  the  members  of  this  society  are  forming  plans  and  sub- 
scribing funds  to  purchase  a  more  suitable  church  property  so  that 
this  organization  will  soon  be  established  materially  as  well  as  are 
the  other  religious  societies  of  North  Adams.  The  present  pastor 
of  the  Second  Baptist  congregation  is  the  Rev.  R.  W.  Fields. 

MISSIONS 

^^In  addition  to  the  churches  already  mentioned  and  assisting 
them  in  strengthening  the  religious  fervor  of  this  community, 
are  the  various  outlying  chapels  erected  for  the  accommodation 


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of  the  citizens  who  live  at  some  distance  from  the  main  portions 
of  the  city.  The  Protestant  chapels  in  Briggsville,  Blackinton  and 
Braytonville,  as  well  as  the  quaint  little  chapel  situated 
on  the  East  Mountain  road  at  the  foot  of  Florida  Mountain, 
are  carried  on  by  the  members  of  the  different  churches, 
regardless  of  denomination  and  accomplish  an  amount  of  good 
which  it  would  be  impossible  for  a  number  of  small  organizations 
to  achieve  if  struggling  independently.  The  French  Roman  Cath- 
olics have  also  a  prosperous  mission  in  the  village  of  Greylock  for 
the  members  of  that  communion.  A  feeling  of  the  utmost  cordiality 
and  respect  exists  among  the  various  clergymen  of  the  community, 
and  it  is  the  aim  and  purpose  of  them  all  to  inculcate  into  the  minds 
of  their  parishioners  a  true  conception  of  the  brotherhood  of  man. 
In  a  world  of  imperfection  the  perfect  ideal  of  Christianity  will 
never  be  realized  but  the  earnest  work  of  the  various  churches 
and  missions  of  North  Adams  is  doing  much  toward  the  attainment 
of  that  end. 


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DRURY  ACADEMY 


Schools  of  North  Adams— A  Source  of  Pride 


Of  secondary  importance  only  to  the  churches  are  the  schools 
of  which  North  Adams  is  justly  proud.  The  first  real  impetus  to 
education  in  North  Adams  was  given  by  Mr.  Nathan  Drury  of  Flor- 
ida, Mass.,  who  manifested  his  interest  in  the  mental  advancement 
of  the  city  by  willing,  in  1840,  the  sum  of  $3,000  for  the  purpose  of 
founding  a  school  to  be  known  as  Drury  academy.  In  accordance 
with  the  provisions  of  Mr.  Drury's  will  a  board  of  trustees  was  ap- 
pointed who  formed  a  corporation  under  the  name  of  Drury  acad- 
emy. Grounds  were  purchased  on  a  hill  near  the  center  of  the  town 
and  a  building  erected.  The  school  was  first  conducted  as  a  private 
institution  but  in  1851  it  was  converted  into  a  free  high  school 
for  North  Adams  and  in  1866  the  property  was  leased  to  the  town 
for  ninety-nine  years,  with  the  privilege  of  erecting  a  better  building 
for  public  school  purposes.  In  1867  the  brick  building  comprising 
eighteen  class-rooms  was  erected.  This  institution  is  now  one  of 


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the  leading  high  schools  in  New  England.  A  diploma  from  Drury 
will  admit  the  holder  to  almost  any  college  in  the  country  without 
the  requirement  of  an  entrance  examination. 

When  North  Adams  was  incorporated  as  a  town  in  1878  it 
had  a  population  of  about  11,000  with  1,996  children,  and  an  average 
school  attendance  of  1,360  pupils.  It  is  to  the  late  Anson  D. 
Miner  that  the  present  school  system  of  North  Adams  owes  a  very 
large  share  of  its  success.  Under  his  direction  the  schools  of  North 
Adams  were  carried  forward  to  a  high  standard  of  excellence  in 
organization,  discipline  and  instruction.  Since  the  introduction 
of  the  city  government  important  advances  have  been  made  in 
school  affairs.  Four  new  buildings,  known  as  the  Brayton,  Johnson, 
Houghton  and  Freeman  schools,  costing  approximately  $40,000 
each,  have  been  erected  and  another  building,  the  Mark  Hopkins 
school,  comparatively  new,  has  been  enlarged  so  that  it  now  ac- 
commodates 700  pupils.  The  common  schools  are  amply  provided 
with  books  and  supplies  as  well  as  with  an  excellent  force  of  earnest, 
well  trained  teachers  who  fully  appreciate  their  duties  and  the  res- 
ponsibilities of  their  profession. 

PAROCHIAL  SCHOOLS 

In  addition  to  the  excellent  public  schools  system  of  North 
Adams  there  has  been  established  here  two  parochial  .schools. 
The  building  occupied  by  the  pupils  of  St.  Francis  parish  is  situated 
on  Eagle  street  near  the  church  and  is  known  as  St.  Francis  school. 
This  school  is  a  fine  brick  structure  and  contains  a  commodious 
assembly  hall  capable  of  seating  700  pupils.  This  building  was 
completed  during  the  pastorate  of  the  Rev.  Fr.  Burke  and  the  school 
opened  September  6,  1886,  with  an  attendance  of  about  400  pupils 
who  are  in  charge  of  the  Sisters  of  St.  Joseph.  Since  that  time  the 
attendance  at  this  school  has  been  constantly  increasing.  About 
ten  years  ago  a  fine  chemical  and  physical  laboratory  was  installed 
in  the  high  school.  The  Sisters  of  St.  Joseph,  who  are  the  instruc- 
tors, reside  in  the  convent  which  is  in  the  immediate  vicinity  of  the 
school.  The  sisters  are  able  and  conscientious  teachers  and  their 
ambition  is  to  make  the  school  second  to  none  in  the  Common- 
wealth. 

The  rapid  increase  of  the  French  speaking  population  of  North 
Adams  led  the  late  Rev.  Louis  LeDuc  to  establish  the  parochial 
school  of  Notre  Dame  parish.  The  large  basement  of  the  church 
was  fitted  up  for  school  purposes  and  on  September  2,  1890,  the 
school  opened  with  307  pupils  in  charge  of  the  Sisters  of  St.  Anne. 
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complete  high  school  course.  Instruction  is  given  both  in  French 
and  English.  By  the  year  1897  the  original  school  had  outgrown 
its  quarters  in  the  church  basement  and  the  members  of  the  parish 
proceeded  to  erect  a  more  suitable  structure  for  the  accommodation 
of  the  pupils.  In  1899  the  present  handsome  school  building, 
located  on  a  portion  of  the  church  property,  was  completed  at  a 
cost  of  about  $35,000.  It  is  large  enough  to  accommodate  900 
pupils.  The  present  number  of  pupils  attending  this  school  is  about 
800. 

STATE  NORMAL  SCHOOL 
SPLENDID  MASSACHUSETTS  INSTITUTION 

On  the  sixth  of  June,  1894,  and  Act  was  approved  by  the 
General  Court  of  the  Commonwealth  for  the  establishment  of  a 
normal  school  at  North  Adams. 

The  conditions  imposed  by  the  act  were  the  payment  of  $20,000 
into  the  State  treasury  and  the  furnishing  and  maintaining  of  suit- 
able and  sufficient  school  buildings  and  model  and  practice  schools 
in  connection  with  the  training  department  of  said  Normal  School. 
These  conditions  the  city  of  North  Adams  at  once  began  to  fulfill 
and  $28,000  were  expended  in  purchasing  a  site  for  the  proposed 
normal  school.  A  training  school  was  established  and  in  addition 
a  plot  of  land  near  the  site  of  the  normal  school  was  purchased  by 
the  city  at  a  cost  of  about  $20,000  for  future  educational  uses 
of  the  city  and  state.  Upon  a  portion  of  the  land  purchased  for 
the  normal  school  was  also  built  the  principal's  house.  Both  this 
and  the  school  building  are  constructed  of  yellow  brick  trimmed 
with  white  marble.  The  school  building  is  152  feet  long,  34  feet 
deep  and  three  stories  in  height.  The  interior  is  furnished  in  oak 
with  every  modern  improvement.  In  beauty,  simplicity  and  adap- 
tation to  its  use,  the  school  building  is  not  surpassed. 

REQUIREMENTS  FOR  ADMISSION 

Candidates  for  admission  to  the  normal  school  must  be  at 
least  sixteen  years  of  age  and  free  from  any  disease  or  infirmity 
which  would  unfit  them  for  the  office  of  teacher.  They  must  present 
certificates  of  good  moral  standing,  give  evidence  of  average  intel- 
lectual capacity  and  be  graduates  of  high  schools  whose  courses  of 
study  have  been  approved  by  the  board  of  education.  Successful 
experience  in  teaching  is  allowed  to  be  taken  into  account  in  deter- 
mining the  merits  of  the  candidate. 


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COURSES  AT  SCHOOL 

The  courses  at  the  normal  school  are  a  three-years  course,  a 
kindergarten  course,  a  special  course  for  teachers  of  experience,  and 
a  special  course  for  college  graduates. 

NORMAL  SCHOOL  DORMITORY 

Midway  between  the  principal's  house  and  the  school  stands 
the  Dormitory.  This,  like  the  other  two  buildings  is  built  of  yellow 
brick  trimmed  with  white  marble.  The 'interior  is  done  in  oak. 
This  building  is  a  three-story  structure  capable  of  accommodating 
about  100  students  and  teachers.  Single  rooms  may  be  had  and 
also  suites.  In  this  building  besides  the  sleeping  rooms  there  are 
music  rooms,  parlors  and  recreation  rooms,  a  dining  hall  and  a 
well-appointed  gymnasium  are  also  located  in  this  building.  Al- 
together the  Dormitory  makes  an  attractive  home  in  which  the 
students  may  pleasantly  pass  the  time  not  devoted  to  the  class- 
room. 

BUSINESS   COLLEGE 

In  addition  to  the  other  educational  advantages  possessed  by 
the  city,  there  is  also  located  here  a  fine  business  college. 


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YOUNG  MEN'S  CHRISTIAN  ASSOCIATION 


A  Fine  Local  Institution 


The  Y.  M.  C.  A.  had  its  beginning  in  a  club  of  Christian  young 
men  who  opened  a  reading-room  and  library  in  the  Burlingame 
block.  In  1887,  a  year  or  two  later,  they  organized  into  a  regular 
Young  Men's  Christian  Association  and  occupied  rented  rooms 
over  the  North  Adams  National  Bank,  where  they  remained  until 
the  present  property  was  secured. 

Among  the  men  especially  active  in  the  early  days  were  George 
W.  Chase,  George  Hopkins  and  W.  W.  Butler.  The  association 
was  freely  patronized  and  with  its  reading-room  and  library,  social 
and  recreative  rooms,  bible  classes,  gospel  meetings,  did  a  much 
needed  work.  The  members  labored  most  generously  in  the  var- 
ious mission  Sunday  schools  and  elsewhere  as  needed. 

With  the  growth  of  the  organization,  the  need  of  a  permanent 
home  was  felt  and  the  present  property  was  secured,  this  being 
possible  by  the  generous  gifts  of  money  and  efforts  of  Messrs.  A.  C. 
Houghton,  H.  W.  Clark,  Thomas  W.  Sykes,  W.  A.  Gallup,  C.  H. 
Cutting,  G.  W.  Chase,  and  a  host  of  others.  The  gymnasium  build- 


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ing  was  added  eight  years  ago.  Since  then  the  business  men  have 
given  an  equipment  of  looms  and  other  necessary  machines  for  a 
textile  school.  The  association  is  now  fairly  well  equipped  to  do 
its  work  and  only  needs  the  constant,  generous  support  of  the 
people  to  make  its  work  progressive  and  most  helpful  to  the  men 
and  boys  of  this  vicinity. 

The  association  was  incorporated  in  1895  to  do  an  all-round 
work  for  men.  Its  property  is  held  by  a  board  of  trustees  of  the 
leading  business  men  who  will  welcome  any  legacies  for  permanent 
endowment. 

In  its  physical  department  it  maintains  gymnastic  classes  for 
men  and  boys,  also  holds  athletic  meets  and  exhibitions.  Basket- 
ball has  been  one  of  the  most  popular  recreative  games  and  the  asso- 
ciation has  developed  some  fine  teams  in  the  past.  A  number  of 
men  have  gone  away  to  college  from  the  association  who  have  made 
a  splendid  showing  in  college  athletics.  The  gymnasium  is  large 
and  well -equipped,  including  bowling  alleys  and  dressing  rooms. 
Special  classes  are  maintained  for  business  men,  young  men,  em- 
ployed boys,  and  students. 

The  educational  department  has  maintained  evening  classes 
in  subjects  that  have  been  demanded,  such  as  bookkeeping,  arith- 
metic, mechanical  drawing,  debating,  music,  and  during  the  past 
five  years  have  developed  classes  in  textile  design,  which  has  led 
to  the  present  finely  equipped  school  for  textile  workers.  A  new 
movement  to  helping  new  Americans  learn  the  English  language 
was  a  great  success  last  winter.  Lectures  and  talks  have  been  given 
and  many  a  poor  young  man  has  been  given  a  chance  to  get  such 
inspiration  and  help  as  he  needed  to  advance  in  life. 

The  social  interests  have  consisted  of  receptions,  socials,  enter- 
tainments, suppers,  games  and  many  other  features  which  have 
helped  make  the  lives  of  young  men  brighter. 

The  religious  department  has  provided  Bible  study,  gospel 
meetings  for  men  and  boys,  and  hundreds  have  been  helped  to 
better  living  and  greater  loyalty  and  service  to  their  churches. 

The  boys  have  been  cared  for  in  a  boys'  department  and  now 
have  a  fine  suite  of  rooms  for  their  work. 

The  outing  department  was  opened  at  Windsor  Lake  about 
five  years  ago  and  has  grown  so  the  present  equipment  of  two 
houses  gives  an  adequate  plant  for  boating,  canoeing,  bathing  and 
camping.  It  furnishes  about  the  only  summer  recreation  place 
in  the  city  for  the  men  and  boys. 

During  many  years  of  the  association's  history  it  has  had  the 
most  loyal  support  of  its  Women's  auxiliary,  who  have  always  been 
most  constant  and  exceedingly  generous  supporters  of  the  work. 


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They  supplement  wherever  their  help  is  most  needed.  They  have 
in  their  membership  the  names  of  two  hundred  of  the  leading  women 
of  the  city. 

With  the  growth  of  the  city  the  association  will  need  additional 
room  and  permanent  endowment  and  it  is  expected  that  gifts  and 
bequests  will  be  made  for  this  purpose. 


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SANFORD  POST,  G.  A.  R. 


Named  After  Brave  Captain 


The  25th  day  of  February,  1869,  at  North  Adams,  Massachusetts 
William  McKay,  George  L.  Rice,  Henry  J.  Milliard,  William  W. 
Montgomery,  John  C.  Robinson,  C.  Frank  Luther,  H.  C.  Cunning- 
ham, William  F.  Darby,  Wells  B.  Mitchell  and  Miles  Sanford, 
all  of  North  Adams,  signed  an  application  to  General  Francis  A. 
Osborne  of  Boston,  Grand  Commander  of  the  Department  of 
Massachusetts,  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic,  requesting  that  they 
be  organized  as  a  Post  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic,  to  be 
located  at  North  Adams.  The  24th  day  of  March,  1869,  by  virtue 
of  the  following  order,  Post  79,  Dept.  Mass.,  G.  A.  R.  was  duly  organ- 
ized in  the  parlors  of  the  Wilson  Hotel  at  North  Adams,  by  Horace 
C.  Lee,  Junior  Vice-Commander  of  the  Department  of  Massachu- 
setts. 


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HEADQUARTERS,  DEPARTMENT  MASS.,  G.  A.  R. 

167  Tremont  Street,  Boston, 

March  18,  1869. 
Special  Order  No.  4. 

A  charter  having  been  granted,  upon  the  application  of  Wm. 
McKay  and  others,  for  the  formation  of  a  Post  of  the  Grand  Army 
of  the  Republic,  in  the  town  of  North  Adams,  Comrade  Horace  C. 
Lee  is  hereby  designated  to  organize  said  Post,  to  be  known  as 
Post  79, Department  of  Mass.,G.  A.  R.,  and  install  the  officers  thereof 
at  such  time  as  the  applicants  may  select,  and  make  returns  of  his 
proceedings  to  this  office. 

A.  Q.  M.  Gen.  W.  S.  Greenough  is  instructed  to  furnish  the 
necessary  books  and  blanks  for  Post  79  upon  requisition. 

By  order  of, 
THOMAS  SHERWIN,  Jr,  FRANCIS  A.  OSBORNE, 

A.  A.  G.  Grand  Commander. 

The  Post,  having  been  duly  organized,  the  Junior  Vice  Grand 
Commander  announced  the  next  business  in  order  to  be  the  elec- 
tion of  officers.    This  was  proceeded  with  and  resulted  as  follows: 
Post  Commander  .     WILLIAM  McKAY 

Sr.  Vice  Commander      .  .     C.  FRANK  LUTHER 

Jr,  Vice  Commander      .  .     GEORGE  L.  RICE 

Adjutant     .  .     WELLS  B.  MITCHELL 

Quartermaster  .     WM.  F.  DARBY 

Surgeon  .     HENRY  J.  MILLIARD 

Chaplain      .  .     MILES  B.  SANFORD 

The  officers-elect  were  installed  by  the  Vice-Grand  Commander. 
The  second  meeting  of  the  encampment  was  held  in  Martin's 
Hall,  on  Main  Street.     This  hall  was  secured  the  following  week 
for  a  term  of  six  months. 

On  July  9,  1869,  the  Post  voted  to  adopt  the  name  of  U.  S. 
Grant,  thus  becoming  U.  S.  Grant  Post  79.  The  following  year 
the  Post  was  notified  that  another  Post,  organized  prior  to  79, 
had  taken  the  same  name, — U.  S.  Grant.  This  necessitated  a 
change.  After  due  consideration,  it  was  decided  to  rename  the  Post 
in  honor  of  Charles  D.  Sanford. 

Charles  Durand  Sanford  was  born  in  Pontiac,  Michigan,  March 
20,  1840.  He  was  the  son  of  the  Rev.  Miles  Sanford,  who  came  with 
his  family  to  North  Adams  in  1852,  to  occupy  the  pulpit  of  the 
First  Baptist  Church.  After  spending  some  months  as  a  student 
at  Drury  Academy,  Charles  Sanford  entered  Williams  College 
from  which  he  graduated  in  1858,  having  won  his  degree  in  three 
years.  He  then  entered  the  Albany  Law  School  from  which  insti- 


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tution  he  graduated  in  1861.  At  the  authorization  of  Governor 
Andrews,  Major  William  M.  Brown  offered  Sanford  a  commission  as 
First  Lieutenant,  on  the  condition  that  he  raise  a  company  for  the 
Twenty-seventh  Regiment,  then  being  recruited.  Sanford  entered 
the  work  with  great  spirit  and  soon  had  his  full  complement  of  men. 
Entering  the  service  as  a  lieutenant,  in  less  than  a  month  he  was 
promoted  to  the  captaincy  of  the  Twenty-seventh  Mass.  Volunteer 
Infantry.  He  served  with  distinction  in  all  the  battles  in  which 
his  regiment  was  engaged,  until  he  met  his  untimely  end  at  the 
battle  of  Drury's  Bluff,  Virginia,  on  May  16,  1864.  His  father 
and  Dr.  H.  J.  Milliard  recovered  his  body  in  1865.  He  was  re- 
interred  in  Hillside  Cemetery,  North  Adams,  with  military  honors. 

Since  the  first  organization  Sanford  Post  has  been  commanded 
by  twenty-three  different  comrades,  whose  terms  of  office  were  as 
follows : 

Wm.  McKay     .  1869 

G.  L.  Rice  and  G.  H.  Kearn  1870 

George  H.  Kearn  and  A.  Potter  .                           1871 

Wm.  W.  Montgomery  1872 

C.  Frank  Luther  .   1873  and  1874 

Wm.  H.  Dumville      .  1875  and  1876 

Wm.  W.  Montgomery  .      .                                     1877 

C.  Frank  Luther  1878 

Peter  Snyder     .  1879 

Wm.  L.  Crosier  1880 

A.  W.  Fulton    .  1881 

Peter  Snyder     .  1882  and  1883 

George  S.  Stockwell   .  1884 

Orson  Dalrymple  and  A.  W.  Fulton     .                  1885 

Peter  Snyder     .  1886 

L.  F.  Amidon    .  1887  and  1888 

A.  J.  Hough      .  1889  and  1890 

G.  L.  Jewett      .  .         1891 

F.  J.  Lyons  1892  and  1893 

A.  J.  Hough      .  1894 

C.  Frank  Luther  and  J.  Q.  Erwin                           1895 

Henry  A.  Tower  1896,  1897  and  1898 

Henry  J.  Millard  1899  and  1900 

L.  F.  Amidon    .  1901 

E.  0.  Wiley  1902 

J.  Q.  Erwin  .         1903 

W.  L.  Crosier    .  1904,  1905  and  1906 

Martin  Curley    .  1907 


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C.  H.  Arnum 
A.  A.  Haskins 


1908 
1909 


Of  these  Commanders,  nineteen  are  now  living;  those 
who  have  passed  to  the  Grand  Encampment  above  are:  Wm.  H. 
Dumville,  G.  L.  Jewett,  George  H.  Kearn,  Andrew  Potter. 

Of  the  ten  charter  members  eight  are  now  living : 

Wm.  McKay      .  Salt  Lake  City. 

Wm.  F.  Darby  North  Adams. 

H.  C.  Cunningham     .  Boston,  Mass. 

Geo.  L.  Rice      .  North  Adams. 

H.  J.  Milliard    .  North  Adams. 

W.  W.  Montgomery   .  Newton,  Mass. 

C.  Frank  Luther  .       Los  Angeles,  Cal. 

J.  C.  Robinson  .  Loreno,  Idaho. 

The  dead  are  Miles  Sanford  and  Wells  B.  Mitchell. 
The  Post  has  had  450  members,  and  there  are  now  93  in  good 
standing  on  the  rolls. 


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PHOTOGRAPH    BY   w.    H.   STEDMAN 


THE  NORTH  ADAMS  HOSPITAL 


The  City's  Noblest  Philanthropy 


Far  up  on  the  hillside  north  of  the  river  rises  a  handsome  brick 
building — the  North  Adams  Hospital — home  of  the  city's  noblest 
philanthropy.  Rising  above  the  noise  and  smoke  of  the  busy  fac- 
tories— facing  the  beautiful  southern  valley  with  Greylock  soaring 
above  the  foothills  at  the  right— set  in  extensive  grounds  with  unob- 
structed sunshine  and  never-failing  breezes,  it  has  an  ideal  location 
for  carrying  out  its  one  purpose — the  alleviation  of  suffering.  "In 
His  Name"  is  inscribed  on  its  capstone,  and  for  nearly  twenty-five 
years  its  doors  have  been  open  to  all  who  needed  its  ministrations. 

In  October,  1882,  a  terrible  accident  occurred  in  the  railroad 
yard,  and  there  was  no  place  in  the  town  suitable  for  the  dead  and 
injured  victims.  This  so  aroused  the  community  that  $12,000  was 
pledged  in  a  few  days,  and  a  committee  appointed  to  select  a  site 
and  erect  a  building  for  hospital  purposes.  This  committee  con- 
sisted of  W.  L.  Brown,  C.  T.  Sampson,  H.  G.  B.  Fisher,  W.  S. 
Johnson  and  W.  A.  Gallup,  of  whom  two — Mr.  Fisher  and  Mr. 


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Gallup — are  still  prominently  identified  with  it.  The  building  was 
formally  opened  March  2,  1884,  and  there  were  about  fifty  patients 
the  first  year.  In  1907  the  number  of  patients  approached  eight 
hundred,  showing  its  growth  in  usefulness  and  public  apprecia- 
tion. 

To  keep  pace  with  this  increase  in  patronage  the  building  has 
been  enlarged  according  to  the  original  plans.  In  1891  Mr.  W.  A. 
Gallup  erected  a  wing  as  a  memorial  to  his  wife,  who  had  been  ac- 
tively interested  in  the.  work;  a  few  years  later  the  Nurses'  Home 
was  added  on  the  east  end,  and  in  1906  the  west  wing  was  built  for 
the  surgical  ward  and  additional  private  rooms.  The  home  for 
nurses  is  entirely  distinct  from  the  hospital  proper  and  within  its 
walls  there  is  none  of  the  hospital  atmosphere,  but  the  handsome 
parlor  with  open  piano,  the  cozy  dining-room  and  dainty  chambers 
suggest  a  pleasant  private  school.  The  four  wards  and  private  rooms 
contain  about  seventy  beds. 

Not  only  has  the  hospital  grown  in  size  but  also  in  its  equip- 
ment. The  advance  in  medical  science  has  demanded  continued 
progress  in  the  means  of  its  application.  At  present  the  operating 
room  is  well  equipped  and  some  of  the  rarest  and  most  delicate  op- 
erations have  been  performed  there  most  successfully.  Most  of  the 
physicians  of  the  city  are  members  of  its  medical  and  surgical  staffs, 
and  give  their  services  regularly  to  the  ward  patients  who  are  un- 
able to  pay.  They  also  give  lectures  upon  special  topics  to  the 
nurses  in  training,  and  several  have  free  clinics  for  eye,  ear,  throat, 
etc.,  troubles,  upon  stated  days. 

The  Training  School  for  Nurses  was  incorporated  in  1896  and 
soon  reached  a  high  grade  of  excellence  under  the  careful  supervision 
of  the  various  superintendents,  and  its  graduates  rank  well  in  their 
profession. 

The  hospital  has  always  depended  upon  the  generosity  of  the 
public  for  its  support,  as  its  endowment  is  very  small.  Subscrip- 
tion pledges,  corporation  dues,  the  Charity  Ball  and  Hospital  Sun- 
day Collections  have  been  its  annual  sources  of  revenue,  which  have 
been  supplemented  by  proceeds  from  entertainments,  fairs,  canvass 
of  the  city  and  every  novelty  that  the  ingenuity  of  its  friends  could 
devise. 

In  the  beginning  of  its  history  the  entire  management  was 
placed  by  the  corporators  in  the  hands  of  a  committee  consisting 
of  women  representing  all  the  churches  in  the  town,  which  they 
designated  the  Board  of  Control.  This  body  was  organized  as  fol- 
lows: President,  Mrs.  Chas.  H.  Williams;  Vice-presidents,  Mrs.  Al- 
bert Richmond,  Mrs.  Foster  E.  Swift,  Mrs.  William  Arthur  Gallup; 
Secretary,  Mrs.  Agustus  P.  Foster ;  Assistant  Secretary,  Mrs.  Edward 


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D.  Tyler;  Treasurer,  Mrs.  N.  L.  Millard;  Assistant  Treasurer,  Mrs. 
Andrew  Hunter;  Clerk,  Mrs.  W.  G.  Cady.  Directors,  Mesdames 
W.  L.  Brown,  S.  W.  Brayton,  Shepherd  Thayer,  S.  W.  Ingalls,  M. 
Owen,  H.  J.  Millard,  J.  H.  A.  Matte,  Jane  Lawrence,  J.  B.  Tyler, 
C.  H.  Read,  A.  M.  Tinker,  A.  W.  Hodge,  P.  J.  Boland,  Cynthia 
Lewis,  William  O'Brien  A.  B.  Wright,  A.  C.  Houghton, 
W.  H.  Whitman,  Edward  Blackinton,  William  Armstrong  and 
C.  T.  Sampson.  For  nearly  twenty-five  years  this  body  of 
earnest  women — varying  annually  in  personality  perhaps — but 
always  animated  by  the  same  zeal  bore  the  responsibility, 
studied  the  needs  and  raised  the  money  to  maintain  the  hospital. 
Knowing  little  of  hospital  work  when  they  began,  year  after 
year  in  the  hard  school  of  experience  the  few  who  remained 
in  active  service  became  experts  in  their  knowledge  of  hospital 
details.  Few  of  the  original  board  survive  and  only  two 
the  president,  Mrs.  Williams  and  clerk  Mrs.  Cady  were  on  duty 
during  the  last  year  of  its  existence.  The  chief  responsibility 
rested  upon  the  president,  who,  through  correspondence  and  in- 
spection of  other  hospitals  studied  hospital  problems  in  the 
light  of  local  conditions  and  with  rare  judgment  and  heart 
instinct  has  helped  this  institution  to  grow  from  a  humble 
beginning  to  its  present  state,  for  it  ranks  high  as  to  equipment, 
the  training  of  nurses,  and  low  death  rate. 

The  work  was  arduous  and  ever  increasing,  many  of  the 
workers  died,  others  felt  obliged  to  relinquish  it  and  few  were 
willing  to  fill  the  vacancies.  The  members  of  the  Board  of 
Control  felt  that  the  time  had  come  for  men  to  become  active 
participants.  Accordingly,  in  January,  1909,  a  re-organization 
was  made  and  the  following  officers  were  elected  to  co-operate 
with  a  large  body  of  trustees,  under  whose  direction  the  institu- 
tion will  doubtless  continue  to  flourish  and  increase  in  value 
to  the  community:  President,  H.  W.  Clark:  Vice-President,  W. 
H.  Sperry;  Treasurer,  Mrs.  R.  G.  Palmer;  Secretary,  Miss  Caroline 
Sperry;  Clerk,  Mrs.  W.  E.  Whitaker.  These,  with  the  addition  of 
Mr.  W.  A.  Gallup.  P.  J.  Ashe  and  H.  E.  Wetherbee  form  the 
Executive  Board. 


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MEMORIAL   LIBRARY 


Gift  From  Hon.  A.  C  Houghton  to  the  City 


This  city  has  a  splendid  acquisition  in  the  well  equipped  pub- 
lic library,  situated  off  Monument  Square,  the  fine  building  having 
been  presented  the  city  by  Hon.  Albert  C.  Hough  ton  as  a  memorial 
to  his  brother,  the  late  A.  J.  Houghton  of  Boston,  the  donor  mak- 
ing the  gift  without  condition  other  than  an  expressed  wish  that 
it  be  used  for  a  public  library.  To  this  was  added  later  the  sum  of 
$10,000  to  make  needed  repairs  and  changes  in  fitting  it  for  the 
library's  use. 

It  was  due  chiefly  to  the  persistent  effort  of  Rev.  Theodore  T. 
Hunger  that  the  citizens  of  North  Adams  were  in  1883  roused  to 
action  in  regard  to  a  free  public  library.  A  meeting  was  held,  com- 
mittees appointed  and  a  fair  undertaken,  managed  by  delegates  from 
every  church  in  town,  Catholic  and  Protestant.  In  the  meantime 
the  North  Adams  Library  association  having  given  its  stock  of  books 


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to  the  new  free  library,  one  of  a  row  of  stores  in  a  business  block 
was  hired  and  the  library  opened. 

The  town,  in  the  spring  of  1884,  adopted  the  library,  and  voted 
$2,500  for  its  maintenance.  This  appropriation  has  been  gradually 
increased,  until  it  became  $6,700  for  the  year  1909.  Under  the  town 
government  a  "managing  committee"  of  six  members,  two  elected 
each  year,  was  the  governing  body,  Judge  Jarvis  Rockwell  being 
the  first  chairman,  and  John  Bracewell  holding  that  office  after- 
Judge  Rockwell's  death  (1886)  until  the  city  government  was  or- 
ganized. The  city  charter  provided  for  three  trustees,  Miss  Jack- 
son, Mr.  Murdock  and  Mr.  Gallup.  The  town  became  a  city  Janu- 
ary, 1896,  and  the  trustees  then  chosen  still  hold  office. 

In  1892,  having  outgrown  its  original  quarters,  which  gave  very 
little  space  for  a  reading  room,  the  library  was  moved  to  the  ground 
floor  of  a  building  where  the  Methodist  parsonage  now  stands.  In 
1899  the  location  of  the  library  was  changed  to  the  splendid  build- 
ing which  is  now  its  home. 

The  library  is  open  week  days  from  10  a.  m.  to  8  p.  m4,  the 
reading  room  (and  on  Wednesday  and  Saturday  the  delivery  desk 
also)  until  9  p.  m.  The  reading  room  is  kept  open  on  Sundays. 

A  feature  of  interest  is  the  large  number  of  children  who  are 
patrons  of  the  library.  They  are  given  distinctive  cards  and  are  al- 
lowed to  take  no  more  than  two  books  in  any  one  week,  the  girls 
being  directed  to  exchange  their  books  Tuesdays  and  Fridays  and 
the  boys  Mondays  and  Thursdays.  In  this  way,  with  the  library's 
large  circulation  and  staff,  better  provision  can  be  made  for  at- 
tending to  the  wants  of  the  "children.  The  library  is  one  of  the 
city's  important  institutions  and  occupies  a  firm  place  in  the  good 
will  of  the  people. 


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JOHN  H*  WATERHOUSE 

MAYOR  OF  CITY  OF  NORTH  ADAMS 


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From  the  beginning,  the  career  of  JOHN  H.  WATERHOUSE  has 
been  rewarded  by  the  success  which  only  ability  and  industry  can 
bring.  Born  at  East  Greenwich,  R.  I.,  March  1,  1870,  he  was  edu- 
cated at  the  public  schools  and  at  the  Bryant  &  Stratton  Business 
College  of  Providence,  from  which  latter  institution  he  graduated 
in  January,  1888.  Having  decided  to  learn  the  manufacturing 
business  he  secured  a  position  in  the  Washington  woolen  and  worsted 
mills  at  Lawrence,  Mass.,  and  in  one  year  was  promoted  to  the  po- 
sition of  assistant  designer.  So  well  did  he  perform  the  duties  of 
this  position  that  a  year  later  he  was  promoted  to  the  regular  de- 
signing staff  and  given  charge  of  one  of  the  departments  of  the  works. 
He  remained  in  the  employ  of  this  company  for  five  years  and  in 
1894  accepted  a  position  in  a  woolen  mill  at  Westerly,  R.  I.,  where 
he  remained  until  1898.  In  the  autumn  of  that  year  he  came  to 
North  Adams  to  take  a  position  as  a  designer  for  the  Blackinton 
Company.  This  company  having  ceased  to  operate  in  1901  Mr. 
Waterhouse  with  A.  J.  Buffum  of  Blackinton  and  Theodore  Howard 
of  New  York  city  formed  a  copartnership  and  leased  the  Blackinton 
mill.  This  plant  they  operated  until  1903,  at  which  time  they  sold 
their  interest  in  the  concern  to  outside  parties. 

From  Blackinton,  Mr.  Waterhouse  and  his  partners  shifted  the 
field  of  their  labors  to  the  Eagle  Mill  on  Eagle  street.  This  plant, 
which  had  long  been  idle  they  transformed  into  a  thoroughly  equipped 
worsted  plant  containing  70  looms.  The  plant  then  became  known 
as  the  Waterhouse  &  Buffum  Mill.  About  a  year  later  Mr.  Buffum 
sold  his  interest  in  this  mill,  which  has  since  been  conducted  under 
the  name  of  the  Waterhouse  &  Howard  Mill.  So  great  has  been 
the  prosperity  of  this  firm  that  in  1907  it  became  necessary  to  add 
to  the  main  building  a  large  weave  shed  which  has  a  capacity 
for  100  looms. 

Mr.  Waterhouse  made  his  entrance  into  politics  in  the  fall 
of  1907  when  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  city  council. 
He  served  in  that  body  one  year  as  a  member  of  the  finance  com- 
mittee. The  vigor  and  earnestness  which  characterized  his  work 
in  this  office  centered  the  attention  of  his  party  upon  him  when  a 
strong  candidate  for  mayor  was  being  sought  in  the  fall  of  1908. 
Mr.  Waterhouse  accepted  the  nomination  of  his  party  after  consid- 
erable hesitancy,  and  in  December  1908,  was  elected  mayor.  Dur- 
ing his  term  of  office  Mr.  Waterhouse  has  applied  the  careful  business 
principles  which  have  always  guided  him  in  his  private  affairs 
to  the  conduct  of  the  city  government  and  his  administration  has 
been  one  of  the  most  successful  in  the  city's  history. 

In  private  life  he  is  a  genial  and  sociable  man  and  belongs  to  a 
number  of  prominent  clubs  both  in  Providence  and  in  this  city. 


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UNIVERSITY 


NORTH   ADAMS'  ADVANTAGES 


As  a  Residential  City  is  Unsurpassed 


This  city  offers  many  inducements  from  a  residential  stand- 
point, a  number  of  which  have  been  covered  briefly  in  the  fore- 
going pages.  The  schools  of  North  Adams,  the  churches,  the  city 
government, — all  enter  into  a  combination  which  makes  for  a  good 
residential  community.  There  is  always  opportunity  for  steady 
employment  in  North  Adams.  There  is  always  a  chance  for  enter- 
tainment, and  among  the  most  beautiful  surroundings  in  this  sec- 
tion of  the  country  a  family  can  be  reared  most  advantageously. 
There  are  within  the  city  many  organizations  covering  the  various 
walks  in  life,  and  during  the  summer  months  hundreds  of  visitors 
find  this  section  an  ideal  spot  for  their  summer  vacation. 

RESIDENTIAL  DISTRICT  OF  NORTH  ADAMS. 
"Home  is  the  resort 

Of  love,  of  joy,  of  peace  and  plenty,  where 
Supporting  and  supported,  polished  friends 
And  dear  relations  mingle  into  bliss." 

Reference  has  been  made  elsewhere  in  this  work  to  the  beautiful 
residential  portions  of  North  Adams.  The  visitor  has  only  to  walk 
about  this  section  of  the  city  to  be  convinced  that  many  of  the  cit- 
izens are  happy  in  the  possession  of  beautiful  homes.  Gracefully 
constructed  nouses  that  are  triumphs  of  architectural  skill  and  taste, 
spacious  and  neatly  trimmed  lawns,  and  in  front  of  most  of  these 
dwellings  lofty  elms  or  maples  which  throw  a  grateful  shade  at  noon 
and  in  whose  lofty  branches  the  birds  twitter  and  sing  to  the  rising 
sun.  To  pass  through  this  section  of  the  city  and  look  upon  these 
dwellings  is  to  become  filled  with  an  ambition  to  some  day  own  a 
similar  home. 

BOATING  AT  WINDSOR  LAKE. 

There  is  hunting  and  fishing  to  be  found  within  a  short  dis- 
tance from  the  city,  while  boating  and  bathing  may  be  enjoyed 
at  one  of  the  prettiest  spots  in  the  Berkshires, — Windsor  Lake. 
North  Adams  is  blessed  with  more  advantages  for  a  city  of  its  size 
than  most  places.  The  people  rule  in  the  city,  the  municipal  gov- 
ernment having  since  its  incorporation  been  composed  of  men 
standing  high  in  the  community,  and  representing  all  the  people. 


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CITY  WELL  PROTECTED. 

The  water  system  can  hardly  be  improved  and  the  sewage 
system  is  complete.  The  police  and  fire  protection  is  adequate, 
this  city  standing  near  the  head  of  the  list  in  the  matter  of  annual 
fire  loss.  The  police  department  consists  of  a  chief,  two  captains 
and  about  twenty  men,  while  the  fire  department  is  in  charge  of  a 
chief  and  deputy  chief,  five  captains  and  as  many  lieutenants, 
and  having  in  addition  to  about  a  dozen  permanent  men  about 
one  hundred  call  men,  all  sections  of  the  city  being  thoroughly 
covered  with  men  and  hose  houses. 

Because  of  the  splendid  gravity  system  there  is  no  necessity 
for  fire  engines,  this  proving  of  great  benefit  in  checking  fires  early 
in  their  origin  and  keeping  down  the  loss,  as  there  is  no  delay  in 
getting  water  on  fires. 

SPLENDID  STREET  LIGHTING. 

Another  point  worthy  of  mention  has  to  do  with  the  street 
lighting.  Because  of  its  compactness  geographically,  the  city  can 
be  lighted  thoroughly  from  early  evening  until  early  dawn  at  a  less 
expense  than  many  municipalities  and,  as  in  fire  protection,  every 
portion  of  the  city  is  cared  for. 

TRANSPORTATION  FACILITIES. 

The  transportation  facilities  offered  manufacturing  concerns 
has  been  a  factor  in  the  upbuilding  of  the  town.  Splendid  con- 
nections in  every  direction  are  provided  by  the  Boston  &  Maine 
Railroad  and  the  Boston  &  Albany  Railroad,  and  its  nearness  to 
the  Hudson  River  guarantees  a  low  freight  rate.  Fine  connec- 
tions are  made  in  the  matter  of  transporting  freight,  so  that 
North  Adams  has  all  the  advantages  of  being  in  close  touch  with 
the  large  ports  of  the  east  and  saved  the  disadvantages  of  close 
association. 

SITES  FOR  MANUFACTURING. 

Within  the  city  are  several  splendid  sites  favorable  for  manu- 
facturing purposes,  and  in  one  or  two  instances  valuable  water- 
powers  could  be  developed.  This  is  a  point  which  at  the  present 
time  the  Merchants'  Association  is  bringing  to  the  attention  of 
out-of-town  concerns,  and  the  hope  of  the  community  is  that 
within  the  present  year  at  least  another  large  industry  will  be  added 
to  the  city's  already  large  list. 

CITY  IS  BALLOONING  CENTER. 

During  the  past  year  or  two  North  Adams  has  sprung  into 
prominence  as  a  ballooning  center,  the  gas  manufactured  here 
being  well  suited  to  aerial  navigation.  Many  of  the  world's 
famous  aeronauts  have  made  flights  from  North  Adams,  and  one 
feature  for  some  years  to  come  will  be  a  point  to  point  race  with 


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this  city  as  the  starting  place.     In  connection  with  the  ballooning 
activity,  the  christening  of  the  "Conqueror,"  one  of  the  largest 
balloons  in  the  world,  took  place  in  North  Adams,  the  balloon  later 
taking  part  in  an  international  race  in  Berlin,  Germany. 
ATTRACTION  FOR  AUTOISTS. 

Considerable  agitation  has  been  going  on  for  some  time  past 
relative  to  improved  highways,  and  at  the  present  time  all  northern 
Berkshire  is  proud  of  its  roads.  In  this  connection,  benefit  is 
derived  from  the  numerous  automobile  parties  passing  through 
or  stopping  in  this  city.  Many  of  them  find  it  advantageous  to 
make  North  Adams  their  headquarters  while  touring  to  the  different 
places  of  interest  with  which  this  section  abounds.  To  meet  this 
traffic  the  splendid  hotels,  of  which  the  city  boasts  four,  are  adequate. 
NORTH  ADAMS'  NEWSPAPERS. 

Although  situated  in  an  apparently  out  of  the  way  section  of 
the  state,  North  Adams  keeps  closely  in  touch  with  national  and 
international  events  and,  of  course  as  well,  in  state,  county  and 
vicinity  happenings  through  the  medium  of  its  two  excellent  news- 
papers, the  North  Adams  Herald  and  the  North  Adams  Tran- 
script, publications  which  can  truly  be  called  a  credit  to  the  city. 
Few  cities  of  its  size  can  boast  of  papers  more  up-to-date  in  their 
business  methods,  make-up  and  enterprise,  and  as  a  result  North 
Adams  keeps  thoroughly  abreast  of  the  times.  The  papers,  each 
carrying  splendid  telegraphic  service,  are  eagerly  sought  day  after 
day  by  the  progressive  citizens  who  make  up  the  northern  Berk- 
shire communities. 


BUSINESS  PORTION  OF  THE  CITY 


Streets  Weil  Paved  and  Clean 


While  there  are  numerous  small  stores  located  in  the  outlying 
and  hilly  portions  of  North  Adams,  still  the  bulk  of  business  is  trans- 
acted in  a  comparatively  small  section  of  the  city. 

The  principal  business  section  comprises  Main,  State,  Eagle 
Centre,  Union,  Holden,  Marshall  and  New  Ashland  streets,  and 
despite  the  great  amount  of  travel  over  them  they  are  always  kept 
in  splendid  condition.  All  of  these  thoroughfares  are  paved  with 
either  brick  or  granite,  and  a  force  of  men  are  constantly  employed 
by  the  city  to  make  repairs  whenever  necessary  and  to  remove 
waste  paper  and  other  refuse  that  accumulates.  From  time  to 
time  these  paved  streets  are  thoroughly  washed  by  the  fire  depart- 
ment, and  it  is  safe  to  say  that  few  cities  possess  such  a  neat  and 
well-kept  business  section  as  does  North  Adams. 


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SOME  ADMIRABLE  FEATURES  CONCERNING  NORTH  ADAMS 


STREETS  AND  ROADS. 

The  inhabitants  of  North  Adams  have  no  desire  to  herald  this 
community  as  the  model  city  of  the  Commonwealth,  but  in  the 
matter  of  streets  and  roads  every  citizen  of  the  community  takes  a 
justifiable  pride.  All  the  principal  routes  leading  into  North  Adams 
are  macadamized  and  it  is  no  exaggeration  to  say  that  the  traveler 
can  traverse  the  entire  distance  from  Williamstown  or  Adams  or 
North  Adams  without  encountering  a  stone  or  mudhole.  Such 
being  the  condition  of  the  suburban  roads,  it  is  needless  to  state 
that  the  principal  streets  of  the  city  are  in  perfect  condition.  All 
the  thoroughfares  upon  which  the  heaviest  traffic  is  done,  such  as 
Main,  Eagle,  Marshall,  State,  Ashland  and  Centre  streets,  are 
enduringly  paved  with  either  brick  or  granite,  with  the  result  that 
North  Adams  to  day  has  more  paved  streets  than  any  other  city  of 
its  size  in  the  East.  Large  amounts  of  money  are  annually  appro- 
priated to  keep  the  streets  and  sidewalks  in  proper  condition.  The 
city  authorities  go  upon  the  principle  that  it  is  cheaper  to  pay  one 
dollar  for  repairing  streets  and  walks  than  to  settle  large  sums  in 
damage  suits  for  personal  injuries.  This  plan  works  to  the  detri- 
ment of  the  lawyers  but  it  is  of  substantial  benefit  to  the  taxpayers 
of  the  community. 

WATER  SUPPLY. 

In  the  purity  and  abundance  of  its  water  North  Adams  is  par- 
ticularly favored.  The  Broad  Brook  watershed  provides  the  city 
with  an  ample  supply  of  water  even  in  the  driest  seasons.  At  the 
base  of  Greylock  Mountain,  in  that  portion  of  North  Adams  known 
as  "the  Notch,"  there  are  two  reservoirs  which  together  have  a 
capacity  of  100,000,000  gallons. 

North  Adams  can  afford  to  be  prodigal  in  the  use  of  water, 
for  the  amount  at  present  used  is  furnished  by  the  natural  flow  of 
the  streams,  and  all  that  is  needed  to  greatly  augment  the  amount 
of  water  obtainable  is  the  construction  of  other  reservoirs.  A 
significant  commentary  on  the  care  exercised  by  the  city  fathers, 
however,  is  this,  that  despite  the  immense  natural  water  supply 
of  North  Adams,  there  has  been  installed  on  Ashland  street  a, 
pumping  station  to  be  used  in  case  of  an  unprecedented  drouth. 
Two  artesian  wells  have  been  sunk  from  which  1,000,000  gallons  of 
water  may  be  obtained  every  twenty-four  hours. 

From  these  facts  it  will  be  readily  perceived  that  whatever 
other  calamity  may  befall  North  Adams  the  city  is  never  likely 
to  suffer  from  a  water  famine. 


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POLICE  DEPARTMENT. 

The  police  department  of  North  Adams  consists  of  21  regular 
and  5  special  officers.  Physical,  mental  and  moral  fitness  are  the 
requirements  necessary  to  secure  a  place  in  this  branch  of  the  city's 
service.  Without  a  single  exception  the  men  at  present  employed 
in  this  department  are  splendid  specimens  of  physical  manhood 
and  perform  their  duties  in  a  conscientious  and  faithful  manner. 
The  police  station  is  located  on  State  street  in  the  rear  of  Hose  No. 
1.  The  station  is  well  equipped  and  secure  in  every  respect.  About 
a  decade  ago  the  Gramwell  electric  system  of  police  signals  was  in- 
stalled, which  adds  greatly  to  the  efficiency  of  the  police  department's 
work. 

SANITATION. 

In  some  matters  it  pays  to  be  particular,  and  regarding  general 
health  conditions  too  much  care  cannot  be  given  to  the  well-being 
of  a  community.  With  this  thought  in  mind  the  authorities  of 
North  Adams  have  always  exercised  a  great  degree  of  caution  in 
disposing  of  the  city's  drainage  and  sewage.  Since  the  establish- 
ment of  the  city  government  many  thousands  of  dollars  have  been 
expended  in  improving  and  extending  the  city's  sewer  system, 
and  to  this  attention  to  sanitary  conditions  may  be  attributed  the 
general  good  health  of  the  community. 

FIRE  DEPARTMENT. 

An  important  feature  in  the  well-being  of  any  community 
is  the  protection  afforded  against  loss  by  fire.  On  several  different 
occasions  North  Adams  has  had  the  proud  distinction  of  having  lost 
less  by  fire  than  any  other  city  of  25,000  inhabitants  in  the  Common- 
wealth. Including  regular  men  and  special  firemen,  the  fire  depart- 
ment of  North  Adams  numbers  72  men.  Eight  horses  are  kept  in 
constant  training  to  answer  "alarms,"  and  the  two  principal  hose- 
houses  of  the  city  are  furnished  with  chemical  engines,  hook  and 
ladder  trucks,  hose  wagons  and  all  the  other  apparatus  which  a  well- 
equipped  fire  station  requires. 

Although  numerous  fires  occurred  in  the  city  during  the  past 
year  the  entire  loss  per  capita  amounted  to  only  seventy-seven  cents, 
which  was  one  of  the  lowest  fire  loss  rates  in  the  state  during  the 
entire  year. 

AGRICULTURE  ADVANTAGES 

In  the  beginning  of  this  account  mention  was  made  of  what 
meagre  opportunities  for  agriculture  North  Adams  offered  in  its 
earliest  days.  But  time  and  perseverance,  assisted  by  favoring 
climatic  changes,  have  made  the  entire  Berkshire  valley  an  ideal 
region  for  farming.  Everywhere  about  North  Adams,  in  summer, 
may  be  seen  smiling  gardens  and  bounteous  fields  of  wheat  and 
corn.  The  farmers  of  the  region  find  a  ready  market  for  their  stock 


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in  North  Adams;  and  to  own  a  farm  in  this  vicinity  is  to  be  forever 
free  from  the  spectre  of  a  mortgage  foreclosure. 

A  DELIGHTFUL  SUMMER  RESORT 

The  bracing  air  of  the  Berkshire  hills,  the  pleasant  vistas  of 
green  meadows  and  waving  green  fields,  the  picturesque  drives  in 
every  direction,  and  the  lordly  mountains  towering  over  all,  make 
North  Adams  a  delightful  place  in  which  to  pass  the  summer 
months.  Many  people  wearied  by  work  and  exhausted  by  the  heat 
of  the  large  cities  annually  come  to  this  vicinity  for  rest  and  recrea- 
tion. The  reputation  of  the  Berkshire  hills  as  a  health  resort  has 
for  many  years  been  growing,  and  more  and  more  people  come  to 
North  Adams  each  season  to  recuperate  after  a  year  of  toil  in  the 
crowded  and  smoke  infested  cities.  The  practice  of  "camping 
out"  is  yearly  becoming  more  popular  and  new  camps  are  being 
built  each  year  on  the  wooded  outskirts  of  the  city  and  along  the 
shores  of  Windsor  Lake. 

WHOLESALE  CENTER 

The  jobbers  of  North  Adams  handle  three  million  dollars 
worth  of  merchandise  annually,  exclusive  of  some  of  the  manufac- 
turing concerns  that  market  their  own  products.  This  immense 
business  gives  some  idea  as  to  the  importance  of  the  city  as  a  dis- 
tributing point  for  a  large  territory.  On  account  of  our  many  ad- 
vantages as  a  place  of  residence  and  excellent  railroad  facilities 
which  make  it  convenient  for  them  to  wait  upon  their  trade,  at 
least  fifty  knights  of  the  grip  make  their  homes  in  this  city.  Prac- 
tically all  lines  of  goods  are  represented  by  well-established  firms, 
so  that  merchants  in  this  trading  zone  will  not  only  find  it  con- 
venient but  profitable  to  place  their  orders  with  North  Adams 
jobbers.  Many  of  these  firms  have  personal  announcements  in 
this  book  which  will  be  of  special  interest  to  the  retail  merchant. 
Among  the  firms  prominently  identified  with  the  wholesale  trade 
are:  H.  W.  Clark  &  Co.,  grocers;  C.  H.  Cutting  &  Co.,  clothing; 
North  Adams  Beef  &  Produce  Co.,  meats,  produce  and  fruits; 
Armour  .&  Co.,  meats;  Hammond  &  Co.,  meats;  Swift  &  Co.,  meats; 
Burlingame  &  Darby s  Co.,  hardware  and  drugs;  N.  B.  Flood,  pro- 
duce; Ballston  Refrigerator  Co.,  produce  and  fruit;  W.  C.  Ellis, 
shirt  waists,  wrappers  and  dry  gooods;  G.  A.  Grounds,  produce 
and  fruits;  Green  Bros.,  confectionery. 


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BALLOONING   CENTER 


North  Adams  has  Taken  the  Lead 


North  Adams  became  one  of  the  ballooning  centers  of  the 
country  by  an  accident— the  failure  of  a  gas  company  in  another 
city  to  furnish  the  required  quality  of  gas  for  an  ascension.  Inquiry 
was  made  here  as  to  whether  gas  of  the  proper  quality  could  be 
furnished  and  as  the  result  North  Adams  jumped  to  the  front  in 
1908  as  the  city  in  the  United  States  from  which  the  greatest  number 
of  ascensions  were  made  during  the  year. 

The  first  trial  of  the  gas  furnished  by  the  North  Adams  Gas 
Light  Company  was  in  August,  1907,  when  two  balloons  were  sent 
up,  one  piloted  by  A.  Leo  Stevens  and  the  other  by  Alan  R.  Hawley. 
both  prominent  aeronauts  and  charter  members  of  the  Aero  Club  of 
America.  On  September  1  of  that  year  the  first  local  man  made  a 
flight.  He  was  N.  H.  Arnold,  and  the  following  spring  with 
others  he  was  instrumental  in  organizing  the  North  Adams  Aero 
Club.  During  the  early  summer  he  qualified  as  a  pilot. 

The  North  Adams  Aero  Club  was  the  first  in  the  country  to 
purchase  a  balloon  and  keep  it  for  rental  to  responsible  parties  or 
to  rent  it  in  charge  of  the  club  pilot.  This  fact  was  responsible  for 
many  flights  being  made  from  North  Adams  and  two  of  the  three 
American  pilots  in  the  Berlin  International  race  of  1908  qualified 
by  using  the  club  balloon.  They  were  A.  Holland  Forbes,  acting 
president  of  the  Aero  Club  of  America  and  Mr.  Arnold. 

Mr.  Forbes  early  became  an  enthusiastic  member  of  the  local 
club  and  presented  a  valuable  trophy  for  a  point-to-point  race  to 
be  contested  for  under  the  auspices  of  the  North  Adams  club  at 
least  once  each  year.  The  first  race  of  this  kind  ever  held  in  the 
country  was  in  August,  three  balloons  starting.  On  this  occasion 
Miss  Natalie  Forbes,  daughter  of  A.  Holland  Forbes,  accompanied 
her  father  and  Arthur  D.  Potter  of  Greenfield,  who  were  returned 
the  winners,  landing  within  three  miles  of  their  designated  landing 
place. 

Mrs.  E.  C.  Peebles,  wife  of  the  superintendent  of  the  gas  com- 
pany at  the  time,  was  the  first  North  Adams  woman  to  make  a 
flight.  The  big  balloon,  'The  Conqueror/'  which  burst  in  the 


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Berlin  race,  was  christened  at  North  Adams  and  subsequently 
made  another  flight  from  this  city.  "The  Cleveland/'  another 
large  balloon,  was  also  christened  at  North  Adams.  Most  of  the 
famous  balloons  of  the  country  have  made  at  least  one  flight  from 
North  Adams. 

Besides  those  already  mentioned,  among  others  who  have  made 
flights  from  North  Adams  have  been  W.  F.  and  Sheldon  White- 
house,  W.  R.  Baldwin,  Clifford  B.  Harmon,  W.  C.  and  Tristram  R. 
Coffin,  W.  R.  Kimball  and  A.  H.  Vorse  of  New  York,,  Charles  J. 
Glidden  and  Frank  Comins  of  Boston,  E.  P.  Beckwith  of  Hartford, 
Conn,  and  Charles  DeAngeli  Frua  of  Milan,  Italy. 

The  officers  of  the  club  are:  president,  Frank  S.  Richardson; 
vice-president,  Mayor  John  H.  Waterhouse;  treasurer,  Arthur  W. 
Chippendale;  secretary,  N.  H.  Arnold. 


STREET   RAILWAY  SYSTEM 


North  Adams  is  Favored 


The  history  of  the  development  of  the  street  railway  system 
of  North  Adams  may  be  mentioned  with  a  considerable  degree  of 
pride.  The  first  branch  of  this  route,  connecting  Adams  and  North 
Adams,  was  constructed  in  1886,  using  horses  as  the  motive  power. 
This  horse-car  line,  which  would  now  be  deemed  a  crude  method 
of  conveyance,  operated  until  1889,  at  which  time  the  Thomson- 
Houston  Electric  Company  acting  with  the  Hon.  C.  Q.  Richmond, 
organized  a  new  company  and  began  to  run  their  cars  with  elec- 
tricity as  the  propelling  power.  On  October  5,  1889,  the  first  elec- 
tric car  traversed  the  route  from  North  Adams  to  Adams,  so  that 
this,  as  the  dates  indicate,  is  one  of  the  pioneer  electric  roads  of 
the  country.  In  1895  North  Adams  and  Adams  branch  of  this  road 
was  extended  so  as  to  connect  with  Williamstown,  and  the  fol- 
lowing year  a  further  extension  through  "the  Beaver"  district  to 
the  Clarksburg  line  was  made.  To  enumerate  various  further 
additions  to  our  street  railway  system  would  perhaps  prove  irksome 
to  the  reader.  It  will  be  enough  to  state  that  now,  after  the  various 
consolidations  of  different  roads  and  companies,  the  electric  route 
extends  from  Great  Barrington  to  Bennington.  There  are  many 
splendid  parks  on  the  line  for  outing. 


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Points  Covered  in  Rides  from  North  Adams 

Along  the  lines  of  the  street  railways  leading  from  North  Adams 
in  various  directions,  from  one  end  of  the  county  to  the  other,  and 
even  within  the  city  limits,  are  many  places  of  historic  interest, 
among  them  being  the  following:— 

EGREMONT  ROAD,  leading  to  the  last  stand  and  most  serious 
battle  of  Shay  s  Rebellion,  1787. 

THE  HENDERSON  HOUSE,  probobly  the  oldest  house  standing 
in  Berkshire  county.  Used  as  a  storehouse  for  supplies  during  the 
Revolution.  Here,  in  1777,  lodged  General  Burgoyne,  a  prisoner 
of  war,  on  his  way  to  Boston.  Here,  in  1821,  William  Cullen  Bryant 
was  married  to  Frances  Fairchild  of  Great  Barrington. 


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The  famous  house  built  by  Mrs.  Mark  Hopkins,  afterwards 
Mrs.  Searles,  costing  over  $1,000,000.  Among  its  other  attractions 
is  the  organ  in  the  music  room,  costing  $75,000. 

Monument  marking  the  spot  where  the  first  white  man  crossed 
the  Housatonic  River. 

Monument  commemorating  the  first  armed  resistance  of  the 
American  Revolution.  On  August  16,  1774,  eight  months  before 
the  Battle  of  Lexington,  the  people  of  Berkshire  assembled  on  this 
spot  and  by  show  of  force  prevented  the  Crown  Judges  from  holding 
court  and  drove  them  from  the  town.  The  authority  of  George  III 
was  never  re-established  in  Berkshire. 

Site  of  the  office  used  by  William  Cullen  Bryant  while  a  resi- 
dent and  Town  Clerk  of  Great  Barrington. 

The  probable  route  of  Major  Talcott  in  his  pursuit  of  King 
Philip's  Indians  in  1676.  Over  it  passed  General  Amherst's  army 
in  1759  and  General  Burgoyne,  a  prisoner,  in  1777. 

A  stone  house  built  in  1771  by  Isaac  Van  Deusen,  an  early 
Dutch  settler. 

MONUMENT  MOUNTAIN.  A  landmark  of  Berkshire.  The  theme 
of  Bryant's  poem.  Noted  for  its  superb  views  and  the  ancient 
stone  cairn  built  by  the  Indians  and  regarded  by  them  as  of  deep 
religious  import. 

Ancient  burial  place  of  the  Stockbridge  Indians. 

STOCKBRIDGE.  The  old  Indian  town.  Home  of  the  Stock- 
bridge  Indians.  Here  was  established  in  1734  John  Sargent's 
Indian  Mission  and  here  Jonathan  Edwards  lived  and  wrote  "The 
Freedom  of  Will." 

ICE  GLEN,  a  famous  ravine  in  the  Beartown  Mountains. 
Noted  for  its  wildness  and  deposits  of  ice  throughout  the  year. 

BEARTOWN  MOUNTAIN,  one  of  the  wild  spots  of  Berkshire  and 
the  former  home  of  Levi  Beebe,  the  famous  weather  prophet. 

LEE,  a  town  incorporated  in  1777  and  named  in  honor  of 
General  Charles  Lee  of  the  Revolutionary  war.  A  pioneer  town  in 
paper  manufacturing,  at  one  time  having  twenty-two  paper  mills. 

OCTOBER  MOUNTAIN,  where  is  located  the  famous  estate  of  the 
late  William  C.  Whitney,  comprising  14,000  acres  of  primeval 
forest,  at  one  time  stocked  with  buffalo,  elk,  moose,  deer  and  ante- 
lope. 

School  house  which  was  used  by  Dr.  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes 
as  a  study. 

THE  LONGFELLOW  HOUSE,  formerly  the  property  of  Hon.  Nathan 
Appleton  of  Boston,  father-in-law  of  Henry  W.  Longfellow.  It 
was  here  and  concerning  this  place  that  the  latter  wrote  the  poem, 
"The  Old  Clock  on  the  Stairs." 


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The  famous  Berkshire  Elm,  120  feet  high  stood  near  the  meeting- 
house of  "Fighting  Parson  Allen,"  who  led  the  men  of  Berkshire 
to  the  Battle  of  Bennington.  On  the  green  was  held  in  1809  the 
first  agricultural  fair  ever  held  in  America,  and  here  also  General  de 
Lafayette  was  given  a  reception  in  1825. 

FORT  GOODRICH,  erected  in  1756. 

DALTON,  a  paper-making  town  for  over  100  years,  and  the  mill 
where  is  made  all  the  paper  used  by  the  United  States  Government 
for  its  currency. 

LANESBORO  VILLAGE,  the  birthplace  of  "Josh  Billings,"  the 
American  humorist,  and  Constitution  Hill,  the  home  of  Jonathan 
Smith,  the  plain  Berkshire  farmer,  whose  telling  speech  aided 
materially  in  bringing  about  the  adoption  of  the  Federal  Constitu- 
tion by  the  Massachusetts  Convention  of  1788. 

Home  of  "The  Great  Cheshire  Cheese."  Weight  1235  pounds, 
one  day's  product  of  the  town's  dairies.  Molded  in  a  cider  press, 
it  was  drawn  by  oxen  to  Hudson,  New  York,  and  shipped  thence 
by  water  to  Washington,  D.  C.,  and  presented  to  President  Thomas 
Jefferson,  as  token  of  admiration  from  the  citizens  of  Cheshire. 

CHESHIRE,  named  after  Cheshire,  England.  First  settled  in 
1766.  Town  government  organized  in  1793.  Once  produced 
200,000  pounds  of  cheese  annually.  Today  a  farming  and  mining 
town,  producing  the  best  iron  ore,  the  best  glass  sand  and  the  best 
lime  known  to  the  country. 

Cheshire  Harbor  trail  to  Greylock,  distance  4i  miles  to  the 
summit.  The  easiest  and  shortest  trail  to  Greylock  Mountain. 

THE  ADAMS  TROUT  HATCHERY,  established  by  the  State  of 
Massachusetts.  Over  250,000  trout  are  hatched  here  annually 
to  supply  the  brooks  of  Western  Massachusetts. 

ADAMS,  originally  East  Hoosuck,  incorporated  as  a  town  in 
1778  and  name  changed  in  honor  of  Samuel  Adams,  "The  Father 
of  the  American  Revolution."  In  1878  the  township  was  divided 
and  North  Adams  was  set  off  as  a  separate  township.  Population 
of  Adams,  14,000.  Here  are  located  the  Berkshire  Cotton  Com- 
pany's mills  the  largest  plant  in  New  England,  the  Renfrew  Mills 
and  the  noted  L.  L.  Brown  Paper  Company's  plant. 

Birthplace  of  Susan  B.  Anthony,  leader  in  the  -Woman's  Suf- 
frage movement.  She  was  born  of  Quaker  parentage  in  a  house 
which  is  still  standing. 

Famous  GREYLOCK  MOUNTAIN,  3505  feet  high.  The  highest 
point  in  Massachusetts  and  now  included  in  a  State  Reservation 
of  8,000  acres,  forever  set  apart  as  a  pleasure  ground  for  the  people. 

HOOSAC  TUNNEL,  four  and  three-quarter  miles  in  length. 
The  longest  railway  tunnel  on  the  American  continent.  Com- 


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menced  in  1853  by  private  enterprise,  it  was  completed  in  1874 
by  the  State  of  Massachusetts  at  a  cost  of  $14,000,000  and  196  lives. 

NORTH  ADAMS  STATE  NORMAL  SCHOOL,  established  by  the 
Commonwealth  in  1897.  They  consist  of  the  main  school  building, 
principal's  house  and  Taconic  Hall,  the  school  dormitory. 

BECKLEY  IRON  FURNACE,  where  was  smelted  the  ore  dug  at 
the  foot  of  the  Greylock  Range  from  which  the  plates  of  the  original 
Monitor  were  made. 

The  ford  of  the  Old  Mohawk  Trail,  the  pathway  trod  by  the 
Indians  of  the  Five  Nations  on  their  journeys  from  the  Hudson 
to  the  Connecticut  from  time  immemorial. 

FORT  MASSACHUSETTS,  built  by  the  Colony  in  1745.  Captured 
and  destroyed  in  August,  1746,  by  General  de  Vaudreuil  in  command 
of  800  French  Regulars  and  Indians.  Sergt.  John  Hawks  and  21 
men,  the  gallant  defenders  during  a  thirty  hours'  siege,  together  with 
eight  women  and  children  were  taken  as  captives  to  Canada. 

MOUNT  WILLIAMS,  the  northern  bulwark  of  the  Greylock  Range. 
It  is  3,020  feet  high  and  named  in  honor  of  Colonel  Ephriam  Will- 
iams, builder  of  Fort  Massachusetts  and  founder  of  Williams  College. 

The  site  of  the  house  of  John  Perry,  built  in  1746  and  destroyed 
by  the  French  and  Indians  in  the  same  year.  The  first  house  built 
in  the  Hoosac  Valley  within  the  limits  of  Massachusetts. 

VILLAGE  OF  BLACKINTON,  within  the  limits  of  the  city  of  North 
Adams.  Noted  for  its  manufacture  of  woolen  goods,  which  was 
begun  here  as  early  as  1821  by  the  late  Sanford  Blackinton. 

WILLIAMSTOWN  STATION,  one  mile  from  Williamstown  village. 
Here  was  located  in  1791  the  free  school  founded  from  the  bequest 
of  Col.  Ephriam  Williams,  who  fell  in  battle  against  the  French  at 
Lake  George  in  1755.  The  school  was  incorporated  as  Williams 
College  in  1793.  The  town  is  noted  for  its  beautiful  country  seats 
and  grandeur  and  picturesqueness  of  its  surrounding  mountains. 
Williamstown  is  in  the  extreme  northwest  corner  of  Massachusetts 
touching  the  states  of  Vermont  and  New  York. 

THE  WHITE  OAKS  ROAD,  up  which  in  August  1777  marched 
the  men  of  Berkshire  to  fight  the  British  at  Bennington.  Down 
this  road  in  October,  1777,  marched  a  detachment  of  Burgoyne's 
army  as  prisoners  of  war. 

SAND  SPRINGS,  the  famous  warm  springs  of  Berkshire,  flowing 
400  gallons  per  minute.  Temperature  76  degrees  throughout  the 
year.  A  health  resort  for  the  Indians  of  the  Five  Nations  and  for 
white  men  since  1762. 

The  Massachusetts  and  Vermont  state  line,  surveyed  in  1741 
by  Richard  Hazen  and  never  since  altered.  This  line,  by  mistake, 


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was  run  1°  45'  north  of  due  west,  an  error  which  resulted  in  placing 
the  present  site  of  the  city  of  North  Adams  and  of  Williams  College 
within  the  borders  of  Massachusetts  instead  of  Vermont. 

MOON  HOLLOW,  where  the  three  states  of  Vermont,  Massachu- 
setts and  New  York  meet  at  a  common  point.  The  Massachusetts 
and  New  York  line  was  in  dispute  for  100  years  and  was  settled  by 
Federal  Commission  in  1787. 

POWNAL,  Vermont,  named  in  honor  of  Thomas  Pownall, 
governor  of  The  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony,  1757-60.  First  settled 
by  the  Dutch  in  1724.  Town  government  organized  in  1763. 
In  this  Village  was  born  James  Fisk,  Jr.,  the  "Prince  of  Erie/' 

North  Pownal  school  house,  which  had  for  teachers  during  two 
successive  winters  James  A.  Garfield  and  Chester  A.  Arthur  respec- 
tively. By  a  strange  coincidence  the  latter  also  succeeded  the  for- 
mer as  President  of  the  United  States. 

POWNAL  CENTER  is  986  feet  above  sea  level,  437  feet  higher 
than  the  Hoosac  at  Pownal  and  304  feet  higher  than  Bennington. 
From  Pownal  Village  the  railway  climbs  437  feet  in  2J  miles. 

The  road  to  Bennington  Center,  site  of  the  Continental  store 
house,  the  objective  point  of  Burgoyne's  expedition.  There  may 
be  seen  the  battle  monument,  the  old  church  and  cemetery,  monu- 
ment to  the  Hessian  Soldiers,  the  William  Lloyd  Garrison  monument. 

One  of  the  oldest  houses  in  Bennington  and  also  in  the  state 
of  Vermont. 

BENNINGTON,  a  village  of  great  historic  interest.  At  Ben- 
nington Center  may  be  seen  the  Bennington  battle  monument, 
308  feet  in  height,  built  of  native  stone,  the  highest  battle  monument 
in  the  world.  This  marks  the  site  of  the  Revolutionary  store-house, 
the  objective  point  of  one  of  General  Burgoyne's  expeditions. 
At  Bennington  Center  may  also  be  seen  the  monument  marking  the 
site  of  the  old  Catamount  Tavern,  the  William  Lloyd  Garrison 
monument,  and  the  old  cemetery  with  the  monument  to  the  British 
soldiers  who  fell  in  the  battle  of  Bennington.  In  another  part  of 
the  town  is  the  Vermont  State  Soldiers'  Home,  with  its  noted 
fountain. 


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Ideal  City  for  Business 


Having  viewed  the  educational  advantages  of  the  city,  some 
observations  concerning  the  industrial  life  of  North  Adams  may 
here  be  proper. 

The  ideal  city  for  business  is  the  one  in  which  many  and  varied 
manufacturing  industries  are  conducted.  If  a  community  is  given 
for  the  most  part  to  the  manufacturing  of  one  line  of  goods,  then, 
when  the  market  for  that  commodity  becomes  overstocked,  the 
mills  cease  to  operate,  either  in  whole  or  in  part,  and  the  majority 
of  the  people  must  remain  idle  to  the  great  detriment  of  the  com- 
munity. But  with  a  variety  of  industries  this  misfortune  does  not 
occur,  for  when  one  manufacturing  business  languishes  industries 
of  other  sorts  are  liable  to  be  enjoying  extreme  prosperity,  and  so 
the  merchants  and  the  majority  of  the  citizens  do  not  feel  the  lack 
of  work  in  one  line  so  acutely.  In  this  respect  North  Adams  is 
especially  fortunate.  With  the  manufacture  of  cotton  goods, 
woolen  goods,  all  kind  of  print  goods,  waist  and  wrapper  manu- 
facturing, the  making  of  shoes,  the  machine  shops  and  iron  works, 
the  leather  industries,  cigar  manufactories,  washing  machines, 
combs  and  brushes,  and  the  biscuit  factories,  there  is  seen  in  North 
Adams  a  diversity  of  industries,  and  all  on  an  extensive  scale  not 
often  found  in  a  city  of  this  size.  As  a  consequence  North  Adams 
has  not  experienced  such  hard  times  as  have  other  cities,  and  during 
periods  of  depression  this  city  has  felt  little  of  the  distress  so  com- 
mon to  other  communities,  as  was  particularly  evidenced  by  the 
strong  situation  of  the  North  Adams  banks  during  the  panic  of  1907. 

The  operatives  engaged  in  the  factories  of  North  Adams  are 
intelligent  and,  as  a  rule,  thrifty.  They  dress  and  house  themselves 
well  and  are  ambitious  to  give  their  children  greater  educational 
advantages  than  they  received.  It  is  this  ambition  on  the  part 
of  the  people  themselves  that  is  perhaps  largely  responsible  for  the 
city's  splendid  school  system.  The  wages  paid  to  employees  are  as 
high  as  any  paid  for  a  similar  work  in  other  parts  of  the  country. 
To  the  various  factories  of  North  Adams  then,  is  attributable  the 
present  development  of  the  city,  and  with  the  continued  success 
and  further  increase  of  her  manufacturing  plants  will  come  to  North 
Adams  a  yet  more  extensive  prosperity. 


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THE  ARNOLD  PRINT  WORKS 
The  City's  Chief  Industry 

It  would  be  impossible  to  overestimate  the  benefits  accruing 
to  a  community  from  an  institution  such  as  the  Arnold  Print  Works. 
A  plant  which  produces  more  than  five  million  dollars  worth  of 
goods  annually,  which  employs  thousands  of  people  and  pays  in 
wages  yearly  more  than  a  million  dollars,  which  turns  into  the  city 
treasury  annually  more  thousands  of  dollars  in  taxes — such  a  plant 
becomes  an  extremely  important  factor  in  the  existence  of  any  city. 
This  plant,  which  has  steadily  been  enlarged  from  year  to  year,  had 
its  beginning  in  1861,  and  the  first  piece  of  calico  was  printed  in  1883. 
These  works  were  founded  by  Harvey,  Oliver  and  John  F.  Arnold, 
and  the  early  firm  name  was  Harvey  Arnold  &  Co.  The  head  of 
the  firm,  Harvey  Arnold,  was  the  pioneer  in  the  manufacturing 
business  of  this  locality.  In  1870  there  were  about  one  hundred 
employees  and  the  monthly  pay-roll  amounted  to  about  one-quarter 
of  what  the  weekly  pay-roll  does  today.  Methods  have  been  revo- 
lutionized, machinery  perfected  and  the  works  have  kept  pace 
with  all  modern  progress  in  science  and  invention.  In  December, 
1872,  a  portion  of  the  works  was  destroyed  by  fire,  but  at  once 
larger  and  more  convenient  buildings  were  erected.  In  1874,  Hon. 
Albert  C.  Hough  ton  purchased  an  interest  in  the  concern,  and  two 
years  later  the  corporation  known  as  the  Arnold  Print  Works  was 
formed  with  David  A.  Bray  ton  of  Fall  River,  president,  and  A.  C. 
Houghton,  treasurer.  Under  their  management  the  concern  con- 
tinued to  grow.  When  Mr.  Houghton  became  president  of  the 
corporation,  William  Arthur  Gallup  of  North  Adams  succeeded  him 
as  treasurer. 

At  different  times  during  its  development  cotton  mills  for  the 
manufacture  of  cloth  to  supply  the  Arnold  Print  Works  have  been 
added,  so  that  aside  from  the  main  works  there  are  four  large  mills 
which  serve  to  supyly  cotton  cloth  to  the  print  works  proper. 
One  of  these  mills  is  located  at  North  Pownal,  one  at  Williamstown, 
and  two  others,  the  "Beaver  Mill"  and  the  "Eclipse  Mill,"  in  North 
Adams  on  the  north  branch  of  the  Hoosac  River. 


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It  is  hard  to  realize  what  a  thoroughly  equipped  and  modern 
print  works  must  include,  or  what  skill  and  thought  are  required 
to  produce,  ready  for  the  consumer,  a  fabric  which  combines  style 
and  coloring  of  sufficient  merit  to  satisfy  the  most  exacting  taste. 
Paris,  the  universally  acknowledge  leader  of  the  world  of  fashion 
furnishes  the  style  and  design.  The  Arnold  Print  Works  has  a  rep- 
resentative always  there  whose  business  it  is  to  obtain  the  newest 
and  most  tasteful  designs.  In  New  York  this  print  works  has  a  force 
of  designers  producing  patterns  from  the  ideas  furnished  from 
Paris  and  adapting  them  to  meet  the  requirements  of  the  American 
trade.  At  the  works  in  North  Adams  the  sketch-making  and  en- 
graving of  the  copper  printing  rollers  is  done.  In  this  department 
six  different  trades  are  represented  by  the  most  skillful  workmen 
who,  preparatory  to  their  employment  as  tradesmen,  serve  a  seven- 
years'  apprenticeship.  The  engraving  department  is  the  equal 
of  any  establishment  of  the  kind  in  the  country,  the  Government 
Bureau  of  Engraving  at  Washington  not  being  excepted. 

The  Arnold  Print  Works  ships  its  goods  direct  from  the  plant 
to  the  buyers. 

The  plant  consumes  20,000  tons  of  fuel  annually,  and  the  cost 
of  its  dye  stuffs  and  printing  material  each  year  is  in  the  neighbor- 
hood of  half  a  million  dollars.  The  works  bleach  and  print  more 
than  200,000  yards  of  cloth  every  working  day  of  the  year. 

THE  WINDSOR  PRINT  WORKS. 

One  of  the  most  encouraging  features  of  the  industrial  pros- 
perity of  North  Adams,  and  thereby  depends  the  prosperity, 
happiness  and  success  to  the  community  itself,  is  the  continuing 
growth  and  enlargement  of  that  already  manmouth  plant  of  the 
Windsor  Print  Works.  It  is  a  sufficient  test  of  its  development 
and  industrial  stability  to  record  that  during  the  past  period  of 
depression  it  has  continued  to  operate  with  its  full  corp  of  em- 
ployees day  in  and  day  out.  Its  success  has  been  unprecented 
within  recent  years.  Lest  it  be  thought  that  we  are  over-paint- 
ing the  picture  of  the  prosperity  of  North  Adams  manufactories, 
we  take  the  following  account  of  the  Windsor  Print  Works,  almost 
verbatim,  from  a  journal  entirely  independent  of  North  Adams 
and  its  influences,  namely:  The  American  Wool  and  Cotton  Re- 
porter, for  April,  1909.  This  article  says  in  part: 

"The  print  works  for  a  long  time  known  as  the  Freeman  Manu- 
facturing Company,  first  began  printing  cotton  cloths  on  the  prem- 
ises eighty  years  ago.  It  is  the  oldest  print  works  in  Western  Massa- 


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chusetts,  and  one  of  the  oldest  in  the  country.  It  soon  obtained 
and  held  a  high  position  in  the  market. 

"Cotton  flannel  is  an  important  product  of  the  Windsor  Works, 
and  the  printed  effects  of  this  character  are  unexcelled.  Here  the 
first  napping  of  printed  cotton  flannels  in  the  United  States  was 
started,  and  each  year  finds  improvement  in  the  process. 

"Mercerized  goods  are  another  specialty  of  the  Windsor  Works, 
and  the  most  pleasing  product  of  the  mercerized  goods  is  their  cotto- 
silks,  a  splendid  imitation  of  the  summer  and  foulard  silks.  These 
cottosilks  are  in  a  wide  variety  of  designs,  and  the  equipment  de- 
voted to  their  production  is  taxed  to  its  full  capacity.  Other 
popular  Windsor  lines  are  the  percales  manufactured  by  this  con- 
cern in  various  counts  and  widths,  at  prices  to  accommodate  most 
diversified  needs. 

"The  Windsor  Print  Works  of  North  Adams,  Mass.,  was  in- 
corporated under  the  laws  of  the  state  of  Massachusetts  for  the  pur- 
pose of  manufacturing,  dyeing,  printing,  preparing  and  otherwise 
dealing  in  printed  fabrics,  cotton,  woolen,  silks  and  cloths  of  any 
other  character  made  from  any  fibrous  material,  with  a  fully  paid- 
in  capital  'of  $1,000,000.  The  plant  covers  nine  acres,  all  in  one 
enclosure,  and  consists  of  twenty-two  brick  and  four  frame  build- 
ings with  an  abundant  water  supply  for  all  manufacturing  purposes. 
The  print  works  is  a  completely  equipped  dyeing,  printing  and 
bleaching  establishment,  with  14  printing  machines  and  capacity 
for  bleaching  35  tons  of  cloth  per  day.  The  machinery  is  all 
modern,  is  splendid  condition,  and  the  mill  is  fitted  with  all  the 
improved  accessories  for  turning  out  this  product. 


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THE  JAMES  HUNTER  MACHINE  COMPANY 
This  is  the  oldest  as  well  as  the  largest  iron-working  industry 
in  North  Adams.  In  1847  the  founder  of  the  plant,  James  Hunter, 
Sr.,  purchased  the  old  furnace  property  on  Main  street  and  began 
making  machinery  castings  on  a  small  scale,  employing  at  the  time 
only  three  moulders.  Ten  years 
later  he  took  into  partnership 
with  him  James  E.  Hunter,  his 
son,  and  M.  C.  Jewett.  The  latter 
retired  in  1864  and  the  business 
was  continued  under  the  firm 
name  of  " James  Hunter  &  Son." 
Increasing  business  necessitated 
various  enlargements  of  the  plant. 
In  1866  a  new  brick  foundry 
building  was  erected,  and  in  1881 
a  two-story  brick  addition  was 
added  to  the  machine  shop,  and  in 
1889  two  other  large  brick  build- 
ings were  added.  In  1902  land 
was  purchased  near  Ashland  street 
and  a  new  iron  foundry  erected. 
In  1891  the  firm  was  incorpor- 
ated under  the  name  of  the 
"James  Hunter  Machine  Co."  The 
company  manufactures  preparation  and  finishing  machinery  for 
woolens  and  worsteds  and  a  complete  line  of  power  transmission 
machinery. 

This  corporation  has  also  a  large  building  located  on  a  plot  of 
ground  near  Ashland  street  where  most  of  the  casting  is  done. 
The  company  has  a  reputation  all  over  the  country  for  the  ex- 
cellence and  superiority  of  its  work,  and  there  are  few  woolen 
mills  that  do  not  contain  machines  made  at  the  Hunter  plant. 
The  shops  of  the  James  Hunter  Company  are  equipped  with 
the  best  and  most  improved  machinery.  The  company  employs 
about  200  men  and  has  a  pay-roll  of  more  than  $150,000  per  annum. 

SHOE  INDUSTRIES. 

For  many  years  the  shoe  trade  has  been  one  of  the  most  im- 
portant industries  of  North  Adams.  The  operatives  in  the  shoe 
shops  here  today  earn  good  wages. 

THE  WEBER  BROTHERS  SHOE  COMPANY 
No  institution  has  contributed  more  to  the  reputation  of  North 
Adams  as  a  manufacturing  center  than  the  Weber  Brothers  Shoe 


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Company.  Established  in  1889  as  a  jobbing  company  by  the 
Weber  brothers  consisting  of  A.  C.  Weber,  William  J.  Weber, 
Theodore  F.  Weber,  Emmet  C.  Weber  and  Arthur  J.  Weber,  the 
firm  rapidly  grew  until  a  modest  manufacturing  plant  was  started. 
These  sterling  business  men  and  shrewd  managers  were  and  are  in 
every  sense  of  the  word  practical  shoe  men,  their  father  before 
them  having  been  a  practical  shoe  man,  and  after  the  manufactur- 
ing business  was  started  so  rapidly  did  their  trade  grow  that 
almost  every  year  since,  it  has  been  necessary  for  the  firm  to  in- 
crease its  capacity  in  some  department  in  order  to  handle  the  large 
increase. 

These  men  have  made  a  success  in  the  shoe  business  in  North 
Adams  where  others  have  failed  for  they  know  what  is  good  and 
what  is  bad  in  the  shoe  line.  They  know  what  will  meet  the 
public  demand  and  what  will  not  and  they  have  worked  along 
these  lines  until  the  firm  is  now  represented  in  nearly  every  large 
city  in  the  United  States. 

A  good,  solid,  common  sense  line  of  shoes  is  turned  out  and 
all  shoes  sent  out  by  the  company  are  guaranteed  to  be  the  best 
that  can  be  produced  for  the  money,  in  fact,  one  line  of  shoes  sent 
out  is  stamped  on  the  bottom  with  the  legend  "  A  better  shoe  man 
never  made."  This  phrase  has  come  to  be  favorably  known  in  the 
shoe  world  and  many  manufacturers  have  tried  to  produce  the 
same  quality  shoe  for  the  money  and  have  failed. 

The  company  is  very  up-to-date  in  its  methods,  all  of  the 
salesmen  who  are  on  the  road  being  constantly  on  the  lookout  for 
new  styles  and  lasts  which  are  to  become  popular  with  the  trade 
and  in  this  way  the  company  keeps  ahead  of  rather  than  falls  be- 
hind the  public  demand.  The  shoe  trade  of  the  country  knows 
that  if  there  is  anything  new  or  startling  in  the  shoe  line,  the 
Weber  brothers  company  will  have  it  as  soon  as  any  manufacturer. 

The  plant  of  the  company  is  located  between  Marshall  and 
Holden  streets  being  accessible  from  either  street  and  at  present 
occupies  portions  of  three  factories  all  of  which  are  owned  by  the 
Weber  Brothers. 

When  the  company  was  first  formed  it  took  the  wooden  factory 
which  was  then  owned  by  W.  G.  Cady  on  Holden  street  near  the 
bridge.  Later  this  factory  was  moved  toward  Marshall  street  near 
the  old  Sampson  factory  and  a  new  brick  addition  built.  These 
two  factories  have  been  run  almost  continuously  through  good 
times  and  bad  until  last  spring  the  trade  was  found  to  be  increas- 
ing so  rapidly  that  it  was  necessary  to  build  another  addition  to 
the  plant  and  this  doubles  the  capacity  of  the  plant. 


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A  few  weeks  ago  when  the  Yetman  typewriter  factory  was 
sold  at  auction,  Weber  brothers  bought  that  also.  As  it  adjoins 
their  present  factory  it  will  not  be  surprising  if  in  another  year 
the  wheels  will  be  turning  in  the  newly  acquired  property. 

North  Adams  has  every  reason  to  be  proud  of  the  Weber 
brothers,  for  no  manufacturers  in  the  city  have  contributed  more 
to  the  support  of  a  large  number  of  workers  than  these  same  men 
who  twenty  years  ago  made  such  a  humble  beginning. 

THE  GEORGE  E.  KEITH  CO. 

One  of  the  largest  and  most  extensively  equipped  factories 
that  North  Adams  is  proud  of  is  the  Geo.  E.  Keith  &  Co.,  shoe  fac- 
tory. This  factory  is  located  on  Union  Street  and  is  one  of  the 
largest  as  well  as  one  of  the  oldest  plants  of  this  kind  in  Western 
Massachusetts.  For  a  great  many  years  it  was  conducted  by  the 
late  N.  L.  Millard,  a  man  thoroughly  acquainted  with  every  de- 
partment of  the  shoe  industry.  Under  his  skillful  management 
the  plant  was  enlarged  and  equipped  with  the  most  modern  appliances 
for  the  making  of  perfect  shoes.  The  plant  is  a  three-story  brick 
building  having  a  frontage  of  285  feet  and  a  depth  of  40  feet. 
This  company  is  a  Massachusetts  corporation.  The  officers  are 
George  E.  Keith,  president,  and  Myron  L.  Keith,  vice-president. 
The  treasurer  and  assistant- treasurer  are  Elden  B.  Keith  and 
Harold  Keith,  sons  of  Geo.  E.  Keith. 

The  plant  manufactures  the  "goody ear  welt"  shoe  only,  for 
men,  boys  and  youths.  The  works  turn  out  an  average  of  175 
dozen  pairs  of  high  grade  shoes  each  working  day,  pay  out  weekly 
in  wages  $5,000.  This  plant  manufactures  shoes  for  every  country 
in  the  world  and  has  stores  in  every  large  city  in  this  country  as 
well  as  on  the  continent. 

THE  BLACKINTON  COMPANY 

Among  the  other  important  woolen  industries  of  North  Adams 
is  the  Blackinton  Company.  This  concern  is  the  outgrowth  of 
the  mills  originally  founded  in  1821  by  Sanford  Blackinton,  one  of 
the  earliest  manufacturers  in  North  Adams. 

At  the  time  the  Blackinton  mill  was  founded  there  were  but 
two  dwellings  in  the  village  and  the  mill  began  work  with  only 
two  sets  of  machinery,  most  of  the  weaving  being  done  by  hand. 
For  two  generations  the  mills  at  Blackinton  continued  under  the 
management  of  the  Blackinton  family  and  a  few  outside  stock- 
holders until  1893  when  the  company  was  reorganized  under  the 
name  of  The  Blackinton  Company.  The  plant  then  consisted  of 
the  old  stone  mill,  erected  in  1842,  four  stories  in  height  with  a  three- 
story  frame  addition.  In  February  1909,  the  concern  was  again 


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reorganized.  The  name  of  the  plant  still  remains,  "The  Blackinton 
Company,"  and  the  present  owners  are  John  H.  Waterhouse,  his 
brother  Hermon  J.  Waterhouse  and  Albert  J.  Buffum.  The  new 
owners  immediately  upon  taking  over  the  property  made  substan- 
tial improvements  and  enlargements  upon  it.  A  new  weave  shed 
235  x  60  feet  was  added  to  the  old  buildings  and  new  machinery 
was  installed.  An  elaborate  apparatus  for  running  the  works 
and  lighting  the  entire  plant  by  electricity  was  also  added.  The 
Blackinton  Company  makes  a  specialty  of  fancy  worsteds  and 
manufactures  only  men's  goods.  The  fabrics  turned  out  in  the 
plant  are  celebrated  throughout  the  country  for  their  fineness  of 
finish.  The  annual  output  of  the  company  averages  over  half  a 
million  yards.  The  company  employs  approximately  400  people 
the  entire  year  and  pays  out  in  wages  $12,000  per  month.  From 
these  facts  it  will  be  seen  that  the  Blackinton  Company  occupies  a 
very  important  position  in  the  industrial  life  of  North  Adams. 

BARBER  LEATHER  COMPANY 

One  of  the  oldest  manufacturing  establishments  in  North 
Adams  is  the  concern  now  known  as  the  Barber  Leather  Company. 
This  business  was  founded  in  1831  by  a  number  of  wealthy  residents. 
In  1872  D.  J.  Barber  purchased  an  interest  in  the  business  and  four 
years  later  became  sole  proprietor,  conducting  the  business  until 
1890  under  the  name  of  D.  J.  Barber.  In  1890  the  tannery  which 
had  stood  for  sixty  years  was  completely  destroyed  by  fire.  In  1892 
Mr.  Barber  erected  a  new  plant,  the  size  of  which  is  200  x  40  feet. 
This  plant  is  conducted  under  the  name  of  the  "Barber  Leather 
Company,"  and  is  under  the  management  of  D.  J.  Barber  and  his 
son,  Archer  Barber.  In  this  plant  crude  leather  is  finished  into  rus- 
sets and  fancy  colored  leathers,  and  used  for  furniture  work,  suit 
cases,  pocket  books,  colored  shoes  and  fancy  leather  goods. 

This  concern  dresses  in  the  course  of  a  year  about  175,000  sides 
of  leather.  Connected  with  the  business  is  a  department  called 
the  "chair  seat  department,"  where  chair  seats  and  backs  are 
embossed  in  artistic  designs.  The  leather  used  in  this  department 
is  the  product  of  the  Barber  Leather  Company,  and  these  goods  are 
shipped  direct  to  chair  manufacturers  all  over  the  United  States 
as  well  as  to  foreign  countries. 

The  concern  gives  employment  to  about  150  people. 

In  the  spring  of  the  present  year  the  Barber  Leather  Company 
further  extended  its  activities.  Acting  in  concert  with  the  man- 
agement of  the  woolen  mills  in  Blackinton,  the  Barber  Leather 
Company  took  the  old  weave  shed  of  the  Blackinton  Company 
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Blackinton  Company  a  brick  building  235  by  60  feet  for  manufac- 
turing their  leather  into  finished  goods.  In  this  plant  has  been 
installed  a  water  system  for  the  purpose  of  developing  electricity 
to  furnish  light  and  motive  power  for  both  the  Barber  Leather  Com- 
pany and  the  Blackinton  Company. 

The  Barber  Leather  Company  as  it  exists  in  the  village  of 
Blackinton  gives  employment  to  more  than  one  hundred  hands, 
and  this  industry  has  lent  a  decided  impetus  to  the  growth  of  that 
portion  of  North  Adams. 

THE  H.  W.  CLARK  BISCUIT  COMPANY 

One  of  the  promising  industries  of  the  city,  although  one  of 
the  younger  ones,  is  the  H.  W.  Clark  Biscuit  Company.  The  com- 
pany owns  and  controls  two  large  factories  for  the  manufacture  of 
their  product  and  has  developed  a  business  that  has  become  very 
general,  the  output  of  the  concern  being  widely  known  and  much 
praised.  The  company  handles  in  its  line  one  of  the  largest  lines 
of  any  plant  in  the  state,  and  the  steadily  increasing  business  in- 
dicates that  the  firm  has  a  still  more  prosperous  future  before  it. 

THE  NORTH  ADAMS  MANUFACTURING  CO. 

The  manufacture  of  woolen  goods  has  long  been  one  of  the 
principal  industries  of  North  Adams.  Of  the  several  concerns  now 
engaged  in  this  line  of  business  in  this  city  none  contributes  more 
to  the  community's  welfare  than  the  North  Adams  Manufacturing 
Company.  The  beginning  of  this  concern  dates  back  to  a  time 
more  than  sixty  years  ago,  when  Thomas  C.  Bray  ton,  one  of  the 
pioneer  mill  men  of  western  Massachusetts  erected  a  stone  mill  and 
began  the  manufacture  of  textile  goods  on  the  site  of  the  hamlet 
now  known  as  Bray  ton  ville.  Dr.  Bray  ton  was  succeeded  in  the 
mill  business  by  a  corporation  known  as  the  North  Adams  Woolen 
Co.,  which  was  founded  in  1864.  Ten  years  later  the  North  Adams 
Manufacturing  Co.  was  organized.  The  capital  stock  is  $150,000 
and  the  annual  output  of  the  mill  amounts  to  about  $500,000  per 
year.  The  mill  is  207  feet  long  and  56  feet  wide.  An  annex  to 
the  mill  contains  the  picking-room  and  the  wool-sorting  room. 
The  mill  turns  out  cashmeres,  cheviots  and  worsteds,  and  the 
superior  quality  of  these  goods  have  given  them  a  reputation 
throughout  the  entire  country.  The  company  employs  about  225 
people  and  has  a  payroll  of  about  $85,000  per  year.  The  property 
of  the  company  includes  an  immense  tract  of  land  upon  a  portion 
of  which  are  located  a  large  number  of  comfortable  houses.  All 
in  all,  the  woolen  industry  at  Bray  ton  ville  is  one  of  the  most  im- 


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portant  in  the  city  and  adds  much  to  the  commercial  standing 
of  North  Adams. 

THE  DEAN-SPENCER  LEATHER  COMPANY. 

This  concern,  which  occupies  the  capacious  brick  plant  formerly 
used  by  the  Sampson  Shoe  Company,  is  one  of  the  most  prosperous 
concerns  in  the  city. 

The  proprietors  are  0.  W.  Dean  and  C.  E.  Spencer.  Mr.  Dean 
was  for  fourteen  years  general  sales  agent  for  the  Barber  Leather 
Company,  and  understands  every  department  of  the  leather  in- 
dustry from  the  dressing  of  hides  to  their  manufacture  into  leather 
goods  and  the  disposal  of  them  in  the  markets  of  the  country. 
The  firm  at  present  gives  employment  to  about  fifty  people. 

Besides  being  engaged  in  the  tanning  of  leather  and  manufac- 
turing fibre,  this  firm  produces  a  line  of  fancy  leather  goods  as  well 
as  leather  chair  seats  and  fibre  chair  seats  and  is  recognized  as  the 
largest  fibre  chair  seat  manufacturer  in  the  world. 

The  output  of  this  plant  is  sold  not  only  in  every  state  of  the 
Union  but  also  in  England,  Germany  and  France. 

The  present  volume  of  business  being  done,  as  well  as  the  ener- 
getic method  of  the  men  in  charge  of  this  plant,  gives  every  indi- 
cation that  the  Dean-Spencer  Leather  Company  is  destined  to 
grow  into  one  of  the  leading  manufacturing  concerns  of  the  country. 

S.  B.  DIBBLE  &  COMPANY 

As  manufacturers  of  sashes,  doors,  blinds,  veneered  work,  etc., 
as  well  as  in  general  lumber  dealing,  the  firm  known  as  S.  B.  Dibble 
&  Co.,  is  the  leader  in  Berkshire  County.  This  business  was  founded 
by  S.  B.  Dibble,  who  came  to  North  Adams  in  1871  from  New 
York  State.  He  entered  the  employ  of  E.  J.  Gary,  a  lumber  dealer, 
and  in  1874  purchased  a  half  interest  in  the  business,  which  was  then 
carried  on  in  the  rear  of  the  Gatslick  block  on  Main  street.  Mr. 
Dibble's  business  annually  increased  its  volume  and  to  accommodate 
its  growth  the  present  commodious  factory  on  State  street  was  built 
in  1885.  In  January,  1895,  Mr.  W.  B.  Parmelee,  an  employe, 
was  admitted  into  partnership  and  the  firm  name  became  S.  B. 
Dibble  &  Co.  Prior  to  this  Mr.  Dibble  had  acquired  the  remaining 
interest  of  Mr.  Gary  in  the  business.  Since  the  death  of  Mr.  Dibble 
the  concern  has  continued  to  be  known  as  the  S.  B.  Dibble  Co. 

THE  MAYFLOWER  MILL. 

During  the  winter  of  1893  a  mill  building  was  completed  near 
the  site  of  the  old  Johnson  mill  on  Brown  street,  and  a  corporation 
was  organized  under  the  laws  of  Massachusetts  for  the  manufacture 


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of  worsted  goods.  This  mill  was  at  that  time  known  as  the  Dunbar 
Mill.  The  building  is  of  modern  construction  throughout  and  con- 
tains floor  space  for  500  looms.  In  1905  the  Dunbar  Mill  experienced 
a  change  of  management  and  became  known  as  the  Mayflower 
Mill.  The  new  incorporators  were  W.  H.  Richardson  of  Pennsyl- 
vania, W.  A.  Guile  of  Providence,  and  Albert  J.  Buffum  and  Clarence 
P.  Niles  of  North  Adams.  The  present  superintendent  of  the  plant 
is  Charles  Greenwood  of  Utica,  N.  Y.,  and  the  treasurer  is  Clarence 
P.  Niles  of  this  city.  The  mill  is  now  used  exclusively  for  the 
manufacture  of  high  grade  worsted  suitings  and  furnishes  employ- 
ment for  about  150  people.  The  payroll  of  this  concern  amounts 
to  approximately  $2,000  per  week. 

THE  WATERHOUSE  &  HOWARD  MILL 
This  mill,  formerly  known  as  the  " Eagle  Mill,"  was  built  in 
the  days  when  the  manufacturing  business  of  North  Adams  was 
in  its  infancy.     For  many  years  only  cotton  goods  were  manu- 
factured in  this  plant,  but  in  1905  this  mill  was  leased  by  John  H. 
Waterhouse  and  Theodore  Howard  and  turned  into  a  woolen  mill. 
Extensive  additions  to  the  original  plant  were  built  for  the  new 
management  so  that  now  the  interior  of  the  mill  covers  an  unusually 
large  amount  of  floor  space.     The  firm  has  been  very  successful. 

THE  E.  A.  McMILLIN  COMPANY 

The  E.  A.  McMillin  Company,  manufacturers  of  paper  boxes, 
whose  factory  is  on  Chestnut  street,  gives  to  the  city's  industries 
the  only  one  of  its  kind.  The  McMillin  Company  is  one  of  the  im- 
portant enterprises  of  the  section.  The  firm  makes  paper  and 
pasteboard  boxes  in  great  variety,  and  its  business  is  one  of  the 
most  flourishing  in  the  community. 


OLD    HOME  WEEK 

Its    Inception    and  Men  Who  Did  the  Work 


The  North  Adams  Old  Home  Week  resulted  from  a  meeting 
held  by  the  Hoosac  Valley  Agricultural  society  in  Nov.  1908. 

At  that  meeting  the  idea  of  having  an  Old  Home  Week  cele- 
bration was  suggested  by  the  Hon.  Frank  D.  Stafford,  which  sug- 
gestion at  that  time  met  with  the  unanimous  approval  of  the  mem- 
bers. However,  no  plans  were  proposed  and  no  preparations  made 
for  Old  Home  Week  until  the  following  spring,  when  Dr.  Stafford 
assembled  a  number  of  the  most  prominent  citizens  and  again 
brought  the  matter  to  public  notice. 

A  general  invitation  was  extended  to  the  citizens  to  meet  in 
the  court  house  and  discuss  publicly  the  advisability  of  holding 
Old  Home  Week.  At  this  meeting  spirited  speeches  were  made 
and  it  was  decided  that  the  city  of  North  Adams  should  conduct 
an  Old  Home  Week  celebration.  Thereupon  committees  were 
appointed  to  advertise  the  affair  and  make  whatever  arrangements 
were  necessary.  All  sorts  of  means  were  adopted  to  bring  the 
proposed  festival  to  public  notice.  Souvenir  stationery,  pam- 
phlets, "Old  Home"  buttons  and  the  newspapers  were  employed 
to  give  the  event  widespread  publicity.  As  these  preparations 
progressed  enthusiasm  grew  apace  and  interest  in  Old  Home  Week 
spread  from  North  Adams  to  the  neighboring  towns.  Thus  did 
North  Adams  prepare  to  give  rousing  welcome  to  the  many  people 
who  in  other  days  passed  their  youth  in  the  city  of  the  "Western 
Gateway/' 

"Come,  come!  we'll  ring  each  tuneful  bell, 

And  hang  our  banners  out; 
And  honest  hearts  with  joy  shall  swell, 

Together  their  welcome  shout." 
"Come,  rally,  boys!  awake,  awake! 

Hear  old  affection  on  you  calling; 
Your  childhood's  home  appeal  doth  make, 

On  willing  ears  may  it  be  falling. 
It  calls  you  from  your  busy  care 

To  meet  her  in  her  pleasant  places; 
Her  old  regard  again  to  share 

'Mid  smiles  from  old  familiar  faces." 


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Dr.  F.  D.  Stafford  was  chairman  of  the  general  Old  Home  Week 
committee;  George  A  MacDonald,  treasurer  and  S.  McVeigh,  secre- 
tary. 

The  committees  who  made  possible  the  successful  Old  Home 
Week  were  appointed  by  Chairman  F.  D.  Stafford  at  a  meeting 
held  last  February,  and  are  as  follows : 

FINANCE— C.  H.  Cutting,  F.  S.  Richardson,  Geo.  H.  Hastings, 
H.  J.  Coughlin,  W.  E.  Lonergan,  R.  A.  J.  Hewat,  A.  C.  Weber, 
Charles  Whitney,  J.  D.  Hunter. 

ADVERTISING— H.  J.  Coughlin,  R.  A.  Thompson,  A.  M.  Nichols, 
Thomas  A.  Haggerty,  James  Hardman,  J.  Andrew  Cleghorn. 

RECEPTION— John  H.  Waterhouse,  A.  C.  Hough  ton,  H.  W. 
Clark,  W.  A.  Gallup,  James  E.  Hunter,  D.  J.  Barber,  Hon.  Geo. 
P.  Lawrence,  H.  T.  Cady,  D.  A.  Russell,  Rev.  J.  H.  Spencer,  0.  A. 
Archer,  Rev.  T.  E.  Busfield,  V.  A.  Whitaker,  Rev.  E.  P.  Dunphey, 
Dr.  A.  F.  Davenport,  Rev.  J.  C.  Tebbitts,  H.  G.  B.  Fisher,  Rev. 
C.  H.  Jeannotte,  Dr.  G.  L.  Rice,  Rev.  Bloch,  W.  F.  Darby,  E.  B. 
Penniman,  P.  J.  Ashe,  Rev.  Geo.  M.  Gerrish. 

TRANSPORTATION— J.  D.  Tyter,  E.  Kelly,  C.  Q.  Richmond. 

ENTERTAINMENT— J.  T.  Potter,  N.  H.  Arnold,  Dr.  C.  W.  Wright, 
H.  B.  Clark,  W.  F.  Orr,  J.  W.  Mahar,  A.  H.  Barber,  Edward  Post, 
Mayor  W.  J.  Pardee,  George  A.  MacDonald,  treasurer;  W.  F.  Din- 
neen,  chief  marshall;  Charles  Arnold,  first  assistant. 

INVITATION — W.  H.  Sperry,  Hobart  C.  Tower,  Harvey  Gallup, 
W.  E.  Whitaker,  H.  E.  Wetherbee,  R.  L.  Chase,  A.  W.  Fulton, 
A.  E.  Spencer,  Dr.  M.  M.  Brown,  W.  G.  Cady,  E.  Vadnais,  Edward 
Bissaillon,  James  Bradley,  J.  H.  Cody,  H.  I.  Greenburg,  J.  F.  Rud- 
nick,  Angelo  Siciliano,  John  Morrissey. 

DECORATIKG— W.  H.  Pritchard,  Jerry  Wall,  John  W.  White, 
C.  T.  Phelps. 

PARADE— W.  M.  Burch,  N.  B.  Flood,  Ezra  Whitaker,  Clarence 
Gallup,  John  Martin,  Mark  E.  Couch,  Dr.  A.  Shorrock,  Dr.  J.  H. 
Riley,  W.  E.  Whitaker. 

Police  chief  W.  F.  Dinneen  was  name'd  as  chief  marshall  and 
Charles  J.  Arnold,  assistant  marshall  for  all  parades.  Captain  Harry 
King  of  the  United  States  army  is  chief  of  staff,  and  his  aides 
are  as  follows:  Judge  C.  T.  Phelps,  Sheriff  John  Nicholson,  Major 
W.  J.  Pardee,  United  States  army;  Dr.  F.  D.  Stafford,  Chief  H.J. 
Montgomery,  Deputy  Sheriff  C.  L.  Frink,  Deputy  Sheriff  Patrick 
Morrisey,  Edmond  Bissaillon,  J.  H.  Maher,  W.  M.  Burch,  Dr.  T. 
E.  Demarco,  Frank  Noel,  E.  H.  Post,  W.  E.  Whitaker,  R.  B. 
Harvie,  W.  F.  Orr,  and  H.  J.  Coughlin. 

The  firemens'  muster  was  left  in  the  hands  of  W.  F.  Orr,  E.  H. 
Post,  Charles  E.  Hyland,  R.  B.  Harvie  and  James  W.  Maher,  and 
these  five  men  did  splendid  work  creating  deep  interest  in  the  event. 


NORTH  ADAMS,  MASSACHUSETTS 


CHAIRMAN    F.D.STAFFORD 


SECRETARY   S.   MCVEIGH  TREASURER    GEORGE   A.MACDONALD 


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EXECUTIVE  COMMITTEE 

W     H      PRITCHARD  C.H.   CUTTING  J  O  H  N   H  .  W  AT  E  R  H  O  U  S  E 

J.D.TYTER  CHEIF  MARSHALL  W.   F.  DINNEEN        H.J.COUGHLIN 

J.  T.   POTTER  W.   M.   BURCH  W.H.SPERRY 


NORTH  ADAMS,  MASSACHUSETTS 


ADVERTISING  COMMITTEE 


ANDREW    CLEGHORN  THOMAS    A.    HAGGERTY 

SEC'Y   A.    M.    NICHOLS  CHAIRMAN    H.   J.   COUGHLIN  TREAS.   R.    A.   THOMPSON 

HISTORIAN    MICHAEL    FLAHERTY  JAS.    A.    HARDMAN 


SONGS  OF  OLD  HOME  WEEK 


Special  Prizes  Awarded  School  Children 


The  following  Old  Home  Week  songs  were  selected  from  a 
large  number  submitted  by  school  children  in  a  prize  contest  by 
one  of  the  newspapers,  and  will  be  sung  by  the  children  at  the  Old 
Home  Week  concert,  the  children  having  been  rehearsed  by  James 
Morley  Chambers,  instructor  in  the  public  schools,  the  first  song 
being  by  Miss  Hazel  A.  Owen  and  the  other  by  J.  Kenyon  Smith, 
and  both  being  to  the  tune  ''America." 

OLD  HOME  WEEK  SONG 

September  days  so  bright, 
We  welcome  with  delight— 

This  1909! 

It  brings  Our  Old  Home  Week, 
When  friends  and  neighbors  meet, 
And  all  things  are  complete— 

For  that  great  time ! 

Our  old  and  sturdy  men, 
Will  all  be  boys  again— 

So  they  all  say! 
They'll  join  the  big  parade, 
And  every  street  invade, 
In  sunshine  and  in  shade — 

They '11  hold  the  day! 

Come  visit  every  store, 

There's  bargains  by  the  score, 
Our  merchants  say ! 

Our  doctors  will  be  there— 

To  keep  you  in  repair, 

So  you  need  not  despair- 
But  just  feel  gay ! 

Our  officers  in  blue, 

Will  keep  their  eyes  on  you, 

So  do  not  fear! 
No  danger  lurks  unseen, 
Upon  our  streets  serene, 


NORTH  ADAMS,  MASSACHUSETTS 


Amusement  reigns  supreme— 
For  eye  and  ear! 

Old  Berkshire  will  be  bright, 
With  Autumn's  golden  light, 

And  breezes  sweet! 
So  come  and  see  us  all— 
Our  city  sounds  the  call— 
You're  welcome  great  or  small, 


TO  OLD  HOME  WEEK 

We  want  the  people  all, 
To  come  here  in  the  fall, 

When  we'll  excel — 

Long  may  the  racket  last,— 
With  flags  all  at  full  mast! 
Far,  far  away  your  trouble  cast,— 

Come  along — pell-mell ! 

Visit  your  native  town, 

Bring  friends  of  great  renown,— 

And  revel  here! 
People  from  every  land, — 
Byways  and  city  strand, — 
Come  listen  to  the  big  brass  band,- 

Come  from  far  and  near! 

We'll  show  you  all  the  sights, 
Take  you  to  all  the  flights, 

Something  each  day ! 
Tunnel  and  Bridge  you'll  see,— 
On  Greylock,  shall  you  be,— 
And  beautiful  especially, 

Are  the  mountains  grey! 


BANKING   INSTITUTIONS 


North  Adams  Fortunate  in  This  Respect 


The  volume  of  business  done  by  the  banks  is  always  a  fair 
indication  of  the  financial  condition  of  a  city  or  town.  The  amount 
of  deposits  in  the  various  banks  of  North  Adams  tell  the  story 
of  the  prosperity  of  the  citizens  in  a  positive  manner. 

In  the  history  of  the  different  banks  will  be  read  the  story 
of  the  financial  life  of  this  community  and  will  further  show  that 
the  banking  institutions  of  North  Adams  are  in  the  hands  of  com- 
petent financiers  who  are  laboring  earnestly  for  the  permanent 
prosperity  of  the  city. 

NORTH  ADAMS  NATIONAL  BANK. 

In  1832  the  necessity  of  having  a  bank  for  the  accommodation 
of  merchants  and  manufacturers  was  so  pressingly  felt  that  an 
institution  known  as  the  Adams  Bank  was  organized  with  a  capital 
of  $100,000.  Until  1865  this  institution  remained  a  state  bank, 


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NORTH  ADAMS,   MASSACHUSETTS 


but  in  that  year  it  was  reorganized  under  the  national  banking  laws 
and  became  the  Adams  National  Bank.  In  1870  its  capital  was 
increased  to  $500,000.  Further  increases  in  the  amount  of  capital 
was  made  as  the  business  of  the  community  grew  to  larger  volume. 
On  May  5,  1905,  this  bank  was  reorganized  and  the  name  changed 
from  the  Adams  National  Bank  to  the  North  Adams  National  Bank. 
At  this  time  the  entrance  to  and  the  interior  of  the  bank  were  entirely 
remodeled.  All  the  modern  safeguards  against  fire  and  burglars 
were  installed,  and  handsomely  appointed  consulting  rooms  were 
added  to  the  rear  of  the  banking  department.  As  an  attractive 
place  in  which  to  transact  business  this  bank  has  few  equals  in 
Massachusetts,  while  as  a  financial  institution  it  is  on  a  sound  basis, 
as  the  last  report  available,  that  of  June  23,  1909,  shows. 

Report  of  the  condition  of  the  North  Adams  National  Bank, 
at  North  Adams  in  the  State  of  Massachusetts,  at  the  close  of 
business,  June  23,  1909. 

RESOURCES. 

Loans  and  discounts,  $764,135  59 

Overdrafts,  secured  and  unsecured,     .         .  1,469  82 

U.  S.  Bonds  to  secure  circulation,  300,000  00 

U.  S.  Bonds  to  secure  U.  S.  deposits,  25,000  00 

Accrued  interest  available          .                            .  11,577  89 

Premiums  on  U.  S.  Bonds,  6,400  00 

Bonds,  securities,  etc.,       .  422,541  60 

Banking  house,  furniture  and  fixtures       .  75,304  00 

Other  real  estate  owned,            .         .         .  26,600  15 

Due  from  National  banks   (not  reserve  agents)  12,750  50 

Due  from  approved  reserve  agents     .         .         .  74,100  06 

Checks  and  other  cash  items,               .  5,224  42 

Notes  of  other  National  banks     ....  9,23000 

Fractional  paper  currency,  nickels  and  cents,  .  826  20 
Lawful  money  reserve  in  bank,  viz : 

Specie,        .  .         29,224  75 

Legal-tender  notes,  24,160  00 

53,384  75 

Redemption  fund  with  U.  S.  Treasurer  (5%  of  circu- 
lation^ 15,000  00 


Total,         ,  $1,803,544  98 

LIABILITIES. 

Capital  stock  paid  in,  $300,000  00 

Surplus  fund,  150,000  00 

Undivided  profits,  less  expenses  and  taxes  paid,  48,406  48 


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National  Bank  notes  outstanding       .  299,997  50 

Due  to  other  National  banks,     .  9,967  00 

Due  to  State  banks  and  bankers,         .          .  5,761  24 

Due  to  Trust  companies  and  Savings  banks,  98,312  24 

Due  to  approved  reserve  agents,         .  20,382  23 

Dividends  unpaid,             .         .         .  140  00 

Individual  deposits  subject  to  check,  761,947  66 

Demand  certificates  of  deposit,         .  22,050  63 

Certified  checks,       .  150  00 

Cashier's  checks  outstanding,              .  8,430  00 

United  States  deposits,      .  25,000  00 

Bills   payable,   including  certificates   of   deposit  for 

money  borrowed,  50,000  00 

Reserved  for  taxes,  30,000  00 

Total,  $1,803,544  98 

The  president  of  this  bank  is  W.  H.  Pritchard,  and  the  cashier, 

A.  E.  Spencer.     The  board  of  directors  are  W.  H.  Pritchard,  Edw. 
S.  Wilkinson  and  Archer  H.  Barber. 


NORTH  ADAMS  SAVINGS  BANK. 

The  history  of  the  North  Adams  Savings  Bank  is  the  story  of 
continual  and  well-merited  success.  The  charter  for  the  incorpora- 
tion of  this  institution  was  obtained  April  24,  1848  by  Isaac  Hodges, 
Thomas  Robinson,  William  E.  Bray  ton  and  other  men  who  were 
prominent  in  the  business  life  of  that  time.  Sanford  Blackinton 
was  the  first  president  of  this  bank  and  William  E.  Bray  ton  the 
first  treasurer.  Oddly  enough  this  bank  still  occupies  the  very 
site  upon  which  it  first  began  to  transact  business.  On  several 
occasions  during  its  long  period  of  existence  it  became  necessary 
for  this  institution  to  occupy  other  quarters  for  a  time,  but  in  1870 
the  property  where  this  institution  began  business  was  purchased 
and  in  1884  the  splendid  granite  building  in  which  are  now  located 
the  bank  offices  was  erected. 

The  presidents  of  this  bank  have  been  in  succession:  Sanford 
Blackinton,  Rodman  H.  Wells,  John  F.  Arnold,  Calvin  T.  Sampson, 
A.  C.  Houghton  and  H.  W.  Clark. 

In  the  long  span  of  sixty  years  this  bank  has  had  only  three 
treasurers,  William  E.  Bray  ton,  who  served  from  1848  to  1858; 
Ezra  D.  Whitaker,  who  served  from  1858  to  1872;  and  Valmore  A. 
Whi taker,  who  has  served  from  1872  up  to  the  present  time. 

The  present  officers  of  this  bank  are:  H.  W.  Clarke,  president; 
V.  A.  Whitaker,  treasurer,  and  Ezra  D.  Whitaker,  assistant  treas- 


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urer.     George  L.  Rice,  C.  E.  Winchell  and  H.  Torrey  Cady  constitute 
the  board  of  investment. 

Below  is  given  the  report  of  the  condition  of  the  North  Adams 
Savings  Bank: 

RESOURCES. 

Public  funds,       .  $25,700  00 

Bank  stock,  88,835  00 

Loans  on  bank  stock,  2,300  00 

Railroad  bonds,  471,645  00 

Street  railway  bonds,  86,000  00 

Telephone  bonds,  45,872  50 

Real  estate  by  foreclosure,  239,361  09 

Bank  building,  49,974  58 

Mortgage  loans,  1,874,311  05 

Personal  loans,  597,275  45 

Loans  to  cities,  etc.,  70,313  32 

Loans  on  bank  books,  3,475  00 

Suspense  account,  36  69 

Cash,  76,049  76 


LIABILITIES. 


Deposits, 
Guarantee  fund, 
Profit  and  loss, 
Uncompleted  loans, 
Interest, 


3,631,149.44 

$3,425,916  10 

200,000  00 

923  94 

3,800  00 

509  40 

$3,631,149  44 


BERKSHIRE  COUNTY  CO-OPERATIVE  BANK. 

This  institution  commenced  business  in  1890  and  for  a  time 
occupied  quarters  on  the  floor  above  the  North  Adams  National 
Bank.  When  the  new  Dowlin  Block  was  completed  the  Cooperative 
Bank  removed  into  that  building  where  it  has  offices  fitted  up 
according  to  the  most  modern  design.  In  the  rear  of  the  banking 
department  are  several  large  and  handsomely  furnished  rooms  for 
the  accommodation  of  patrons  and  directors. 

The  officers  of  this  bank  are:  C.  T.  Phelps,  president;  W.  F. 
Darby,  vice-president;  and  Charles  W.  Ford,  secretary  and  treasurer. 
The  directors  of  the  institution  are  C.  T.  Phelps,  W.  F.  Darby, 
H.  C.  Tower,  W.  J.  Pead,  C.  W.  Ford,  C.  E.  Whitney,  A.  H.  Barber, 
E.  E.  Reade,  Geo.  E.  Hastings,  W.  C.  Ellis,  Alex.  Craswell,  T.  N. 
Blake,  Joseph  L.  Malcolm,  and  James  McGowran. 


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The  latest  statement  issued  by  this  bank  is  here  given : 

RESOURCES. 

Loans  on  real  estate,               .         .         .  $178,280  00 

Loans  on  real  estate,  common  form  mortgages,  20,131  30 

Loans  on  shares,  20,575  00 

Real  estate,  43,300  00 

Furniture  and  fixtures,  1,119  00 

Interest  due,  3,200  00 

Municipal  bonds,  41,700  00 

Cash,  6,808  65 

$315,113  95 

LIABILITIES. 

Shares,  $264,829  00 

Profits,          .  48,311  81 

Guarantee  fund  and  surplus,  1,973  14 


$315,113  95 


NORTH  ADAMS  TRUST  COMPANY. 

This  institution  was  organized  under  the  laws  of  Massachusetts 
on  Nov.  22,  1904,  upon  which  date  it  took  over  the  business  of  the 
Berkshire  National  Bank,  which  had  been  in  existence  since  1878. 
The  new  organization  continued  to  occupy  the  former  quarters  of 
the  Berkshire  National  Bank,  but  had  them  completely  remodeled 
and  installed  a  fine,  modern  vault.  The  first  board  of  directors 
consisted  of  seventeen  representative  local  men.  Monthly  meetings 
were  held,  the  affairs  of  the  bank  being  in  the  immediate  charge 
of  the  officers  and  an  executive  committee.  In  Jan.  1908,  the  board 
of  directors  was  reduced  from  seventeen  to  nine  men.  The  present 
board  of  directors  is  as  follows:  H.  Torrey  Cady,  C.  H.  Cutting, 
James  E.  Hunter,  John  E.  Magenis,  Frank  S.  Richardson,  W.  H. 
Sperry,  John  H.  Waterhouse,  A.  C.  Weber  and  R.  A.  J.  Hewat. 
When  the  deposits  of  the  Berkshire  National  Bank  were  taken  over 
by  the  North  Adams  Trust  Company,  they  amounted  to  $175,368.24. 
Since  the  organization  of  the  North  Adams  Trust  Company,  the 
amount  of  deposits  has  steadily  increased,  reaching  their  largest 
amount  on  Dec.  1,  1908,  when  the  total  deposits  amounted  to 
$563,713.41.  This  augurs  well  for  the  confidence  reposed  by  the 
public  in  the  men  who  are  directing  the  affairs  of  this  institution. 

The  present  officers  are:  president,  Frank  S.  Richardson; 
vice-president,  R.  A.  J  Hewat;  treasurer,  Geo.  A.  MacDonald. 


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The  financial  statement  of  the  company  for  July  1,  1909,  is 
as  follows : 

ASSETS. 

Stocks  and  bonds,  $282,531  00 

Safe  deposit  vaults,  furniture  and  fixtures,  9,600  00 

Loans  and  discounts,  270,173  59 

Overdrafts,  .  75  81 

Accrued  interest,                               .  3,503  42 

Due  from  reserve  banks,  81,184  75 

Due  from  other  banks,  8,790  03 

Cash,  29,467  24 


$685,325  84 

LIABILITIES. 

Capital  stock,  $200,000  00 

Surplus  fund,                                     .  50,000  00 
Undivided  profits,  less  expenses,  interest  and 

taxes  paid,  19,896  44 

Individual  deposits,  404,560  78 

Dividend  No.  7,  4,000  00 

Reserve  for  taxes,  1,800  00 

Due  to  other  banks,  5,068  62 


$685,325  84 


HOOSAC  SAVINGS  BANK. 


This  bank  was  incorporated  April  19,  1871,  by  Sylvander 
Johnson,  W.  S.  Blackinton,  E.  R.  Tinker,  W.  W.  Freeman  and 
other  men  who  were  largely  instrumental  in  making  the  city's 
history.  The  bank  was  originally  located  in  the  Blackinton  block 
on  Holden  street.  During  the  following  score  of  years  several  other 
changes  of  quarters  were  effected  to  meet  the  demands  of  a  con- 
stantly increasing  business.  At  length  in  May,  1893,  the  final  move 
was  made  and  the  business  was  transferred  to  quarters  on  the  first 
floor  of  the  splendid  four-story  brick  block  which  had  just  been 
erected  by  the  institution.  In  this  building  the  offices  occupied 
by  the  bank  are  commodious  and  tastefully  appointed.  The  vault 
is  an  unusually  large  one  and  is  equipped  with  the  Yale  &  Towne 
Company's  triple  timers  and  double  automatic  locks. 

This  institution  receives  any  amount  of  a  deposit  from  ten 
cents  up  to  $1,000,  and  is  thus  instrumental  in  encouraging  even  the 
most  improvident  people  to  save  a  portion  of  their  earnings.  During 


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the  existence  of  this  institution  four  treasurers  have  served,  namely : 
Austin  Bond,  Charles  H.  Ingalls,  W.  W.  Butler  and  the  present 
incumbent,  W.  W.  Richmond. 

The  present  officers  of  the  Hoosac  Savings  Bank  are:  president, 
0.  A.  Archer;  vice-presidents,  James  E.  Hunter  and  D.  J.  Barber; 
auditors,  E.  B.  Penniman,  D.  A.  Russell  and  D.  J.  Barber;  board 
of  investment,  W.  W.  Butler,  Edmund  Bissaillon  and  H.  E.  Wether 
bee;  treasurer,  W.  W.  Richmond;  clerk,  H.  E.  Wetherbee. 

A  good  idea  of  the  sound  financial  condition  of  this  institution 
may  be  gained  from  a  statement  issued  May  27,  1909 : 

ASSETS. 

Public  funds,      .  $25,000  00 

Railroad  bonds,  365,190  00 

Premium  %,       .  3,744  00 

American  Tel.  &  Tel.  Co/s  bonds  13,575  00 

Real  estate  for  banking  purposes,  100,000  00 

Real  estate  by  foreclosure,  75,321  82 

Loans  on  R.  R.  bonds,  275  00 

Real  estate,  681,370  55 

Personal  security,  111,400  71 

Bank  books,  460  00 

Bank  stock,  2,000  00 

Deposit  in  banks,  34,885  20 

Accrued  interest,  3,786  09 

Cash,  2,240  53 


$1,419,248  90 

LIABILITIES. 

Deposits,  $1,350,992  09 

Guaranty  fund,  46,808  92 

Interest,     .  9,694  68 

Profit  and  loss,  9,871  51 

Suspense  %,  50  52 

Uncompleted  personal  security  loan,  600  00 

Banking  house  rent  %,  1,231  18 


$1,419,248  90 


MERCHANTS'  ASSOCIATION 


What  it  is  Doing  for  the  City 


Prior  to  the  year  1905  the  city  of  North  Adams,  notable  as  it 
was  for  the  individual  enterprise  and  aggressiveness  of  its  citizens 
lacked  one  important  factor  in  the  civic  life  of  a  progressive  com- 
munity. Possessing  to  a  marked  degree  all  the  elements  demanded 
for  successful  effort  along  the  lines  referred  to,  the  city  nevertheless 
found  itself  with  no  effective  organized  method  of  concentrating  its 
energies  on  those  community  interests  that  require  cooperative 
action  if  they  are  to  be  brought  to  a  successful  issue.  The  old  Board 
of  Trade,  organized  years  before  under  obsolete  conditions,  had  sunk 
into  oblivion  of  its  own  weight.  Opportunities  slipped  by,  un- 
observed or  unheeded.  "What  is  everybody's  business  is  no- 
body's business,"  and  on  this  plan  the  city's  material  interests 
were  advanced  simply  along  the  lines  of  individual  effort. 

The  very  apparent  defects  of  the  individual  system,  or  lack  of 
system,  in  building  up  the  city  from  a  commercial  standpoint, 
together  with  a  growing  realization  of  opportunities  lost  through 
lack  of  organized  vigilance  and  activity,  resulted  in  a  quiet  dis- 
cussion of  the  situation,  culminating  in  1905  in  the  organization 
of  the  Merchants'  Association. 

As  an  organization  of  merchants,  the  association  was,  of  course, 
calculated  to  regulate  conditions  affecting  the  retail  trade  in  general, 
and  secure  united  action  on  certain  undesirable  conditions  obtaining 
at  that  time  in  the  city's  business  circles.  But  as  a  city's  industrial 
prosperity  and  commercial  importance  are  reflected  in  the  volume 
of  its  retail  business,  it  was  in  the  nature  of  things  that  the  aims  and 
purposes  of  this  organization  should  represent  a  far  broader  field 
than  the  mere  regulation  of  its  own  internal  affairs.  "For  the 
purpose  of  promoting  the  interests  of  the  mercantile  business  of 
North  Adams,  to  advance  and  elevate  the  commercial  interests 
and  business  connections  of  our  merchants,  to  broaden  and  strengthen 
business  relations  among  them,  and  by  all  legitimate  means  work 
unitedly  for  the  material  prosperity  of  our  city,"  is  the  way  this 
object  is  expressed  in  the  preamble  to  the  association's  by-laws. 

With  definite  ends  in  view,  the  new  organization  set  about 
its  work  in  a  businesslike  and  purposeful  manner,  and  from  the 
outset  made  itself  a  positive  force  in  moulding  the  trend  of  de- 


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MERCHANTS'  ASSOCIATION 


OFFICERS  PAST  AND  PRESENT 


F.    E.   CAR  LISLE 
S.   MCVEIGH 


H  OBART  C.  TOWER 
GEO.  A.  HASTINGS 
R.  A.  THOMPSON 


W.    E.    LON  ERGAN 
F.   A.    EM  PSALL 


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velopment  within  the  city.  Backed  by  a  large  and  thoroughly 
interested  membership,  a  working  board  of  directors  keenly  alive 
to  the  opportunities  of  the  organization  kept  in  constant  and  active 
touch  with  the  industrial  situation,  investigating  every  proposition 
that  offered  the  possibility  of  an  addition  to  the  city's  manufacturing 
enterprises,  bringing  about  important  improvements  in  existing 
conditions,  exploiting  the  industrial  advantages  of  North  Adams, 
and  personally  devoting  their  time  and  attention  to  the  work. 
During  its  five  years'  of  existence  the  association  has  developed 
within  itself  an  increasing  enthusiasm  for  the  work  and  strengthened 
immeasurably  the  spirit  of  cooperation  essential  to  its  progress. 

In  the  development  of  this  cooperative  spirit,  its  influence  as 
an  organization  has  not  been  confined  to  its  own  membership, 
and  therein  lies  one  of  its  strongest  features  as  a  factor  in  the  com- 
munity life.  Its  private  meetings  for  the  discussion  and  considera- 
tion of  subjects  of  peculiar  interest  to  its  own  membership  are 
supplemented  once  a  year  by  a  public  gathering  in  the  form  of  an 
annual  banquet.  It  is  on  these  occasions  that  the  citizens  of  North 
Adams,  representing  its  many  interests,  are  brought  together  in 
contemplation  of  civic  progress  in  its  broadest  aspects.  Speakers 
of  note,  carefully  chosen  with  a  view  to  the  exemplification  of  some 
one  phase  of  civic  advancement,  are  invited  to  be  present,  and  the 
result  has  been  a  series  of  successful  and  fruitful  events.  Among 
the  men  who  have  been  heard  on  these  occasions  are  ex-President 
Joseph  King  of  the  New  York  Merchants'  Association,  Governor 
Eben  S.  Draper  of  Massachusetts,  Lieutenant-Governor  Louis  A. 
Frothingham,  John  N.  Cole,  ex-speaker  of  the  Massachusetts  House, 
President  Harry  Garfield  of  Williams  College,  and  lawyers, 
educators  and  business  men  prominent  throughout  the  state. 

And  not  to  North  Adams  alone  has  the  influence  of  this  organi- 
zation been  confined.  Following  its  successful  initiation,  similar 
associations  sprung  up  throughout  the  county,  and  an  interchange 
of  courtesies  culminated  in  July  in  the  first  county  gathering  of 
business  men  ever  held,  supplanting  the  annual  summer  outing 
of  the  North  Adams  Merchants'  Association,  heretofore  confined 
to  its  own  membership. 

With  a  record  of  five  years  of  unremitting  and  effective  ac- 
tivity, undiminished  enthusiasm  and  an  ever-widening  sphere  of 
influence,  the  Merchants  Association  of  North  Adams  is  destined 
to  play  a  most  important  part  in  the  future  growth  of  the  city. 

The  first  president  of  the  association  was  Frank  A.  Empsall. 
He  was  succeeded  in  turn  by  R.  A.  Thompson,  W.  E.  Lonergan, 
Hobart  C.  Tower,  F.  E.  Carlisle,  S.  McVeigh  and  George  A.  Hastings. 

The  association  has  chosen  for  its  presidents  thus  far  hustling 
business  men  of  wise  leaderhip. 


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MEN  WHO  MADE  THE  FIREMEN'S  MUSTER 


C.  E.  HYLAND          E.  H.POST         J.W.  MAHAR          W.  F.  ORR          R.B.  HARVIE 


E.  A.  RYAN 

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EDWARD    R.  TINKER 


Edward  R.  Tinker,  one  of  the  old 
men  of  North  Adams,  has  again 
taken  up  his  residence  in  North 
Adams  after  ten  years  spent  in 
Washington.  "Boss'  Tinker,  as  he 
was  known  the  country  over  after 
his  clever  political  ability  conceived 
the  plan  which  resulted  in  the  nomi- 
nation of  Abraham  Lincoln  for  the 
presidency  by  the  Republican  party, 
has  lost  none  of  his  keenness  of 
mind  with  advancing  years,  and  his 
wonderful  memory  makes  him  a 
treasure  house  of  anecdotes  of  early 
times  of  North  Adams  and  of  politi- 
cal events  of  national  importance. 
Mr.  Tinker  was  born  in  this  city 
July  20,  1882.  One  of  the  real 
benefits  which  Mr.  Tinker  conferred 
upon  this  section  was  his  most  suc- 
cessful work  in  getting  through  yearly 
appropriations  for  Hoosac  Tunnel 
construction.  He  fought  vigorously 
against  the  sale  of  the  tunnel  later. 


Keep  Your  Savings  Account  On  the  Sunny  Side  of  the  Street  With  the 

HOOSAC  SAVINGS  BANK,  97  Main  Street  1 

O.  A.  ARCHER,  Pres,  W.  W.  RICHMOND,  Treas. 


TRANSPORTATION  FACILITIES 


North  Adams   Has  Advantages   Through   Its 
Railroad  Connections 

Located  on  the  main  line  of  the  Fitchburg  Division  of  the  Boston 
&  Maine  Railroad,  143  miles  from  Boston,  48  miles  from  Troy,  67 
miles  from  Rotterdam,  and  is  connected  with  the  B.  &  A.  R.  R. 
by  their  branch  line  from  Pittsfield.  The  latter  also  has  splendid 
yard  facilities.  The  Boston  &  Maine  enjoys  the  reputation  of 
having  the  most  up-to-date  freight  and  passenger  facilities.  The 
capacity  of  the  freight  yard  is  1,100  cars.  Can  place  225  cars 
for  team  delivery  at  one  setting. 

Up-to-date  freight  house  with  trackage  and  switching  facilities 
to  handle  125  cars  of  merchandise  per  day  and  with  this  enormous 
outlay,  freight  is  ready  for  delivery  a  few  minutes  after  arrival  here. 

All  the  coal  elevators  are  located  on  the  B.  &  M.  property,  as 
well  as  the  Schwarzschild  &  Sulzsberger  and  Swift's  Beef  Company 
plant. 

Hoosac  River  is  the  boundary  line  on  the  south  of  the  storage 
yard,  where  no  better  location,  water  privilege  and  trackage  facil- 
ities can  be  found. 

Boston  freight  leaving  here  at  5:30  p.  m.  is  ready  for  7:00  a.  m. 
delivery  at  the  water  front.  The  same  applies  to  the  New  York 
business  and  100  freight  trains,  east  and  west,  pass  through  here 
every  twenty-four  hours,  8  west  bound  trains  between  the  hours  of 
6:00  and  9:30,  the  second,  which  picks  up  North  Adams  business 
for  all  western  points.  These  trains  are  considered  the  fastest 
freight  trains  in  the  world,  moving  freight  to  Buffalo,  Chicago, 
Minneapolis,  St.  Louis,  Kansas  City  and  other  western  points 
without  transfer. 

The  passenger  service  is  unexcelled,  there  being  on  the  Boston 
&  Maine  28  passenger  trains  per  day,  with  one  hour  and  15  minute 
service  between  North  Adams  and  Troy,  making  close  connections 
with  the  north,  south,  east  and  west. 

The  Division  headquarters  of  the  Western  Section  being  lo- 
cated here,  enables  them  to  give  the  business  the  closest  personal 
supervision  and  the  patrons  and  shippers  the  attention  that  right- 
fully belongs  to  them. 

Considering  the  railroad  facilities,  water  privileges  and  the  level 
tract  of  land  adjoining  the  freight  yards,  easily  accessible  to  all 
kinds  of  business  and  the  small  cost  of  outlay  in  installing  tracks 
and  private  sidings,  North  Adams  ranks  second  to  none. 


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OFFICIAL  DECORATOR  FOR  OLD  HOME  WEEK 

JOHN  W.  WHITE 


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JOHN  W.  WHITE 


It  gives  me  great  satisfaction  to  call 
your  attention  to  the  elaborate  and 
handsome  decorations  of  streets  and 
our  public  and  private  buildings.  But 
this  is  only  one  specialty  of  mine.  At 
this  time  I  also  desire  to  call  your  at- 
tention to  the  other  various  lines  of 
decorative  work  which  we  are  prepared 
to  do  at  very  short  notice: 

HALL  Decorations  for  Banquets, 
Balls,  Conventions,  Etc. 

CHURCH  Decorations  for  Wed- 
dings, Anniversaries,  Concerts,  Etc. 

HOUSE  Decorations  for  Receptions, 
Dinners,  Parties,  At  Homes,  Etc. 

CLUB  Decorations  for  Receptions, 
Banquets,  Smokers,  Etc. 

Wedding  Canopies,  Palms,  and  Jap- 
anese Lanterns  to  rent. 


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Bliss  Business 
College 

North  Adams,    =    Mass. 


Hon.  Wm.  Turtle 

^Senator  for  "Berkshire 
District 


Born  in  Cheshire,  Jtrne  20,  J855.  Edu- 
cated in  public  schools  and  Harvard 
Law  School  from  which  he  was  gradu- 
ated in  J878.  Later  he  was  associated 
with  the  late  William  R.  Plunkett  in  the 
practice  of  law.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  House  of  Representatives  daring 
the  years  of  J899,  J900,  J90J  and  also  in 
J906  and  J907.  During  these  years  at 
different  times  he  served  as  chairman 
of  the  committees  on  Judiciary,  Rail- 
roads, Rules,  Street  Railways  and  Re- 
vised Pub.  Statutes.  In  J908  he  was 
elected  to  the  Senate  and  has  served  one 
year  as  State  Senator. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Knights  of 
Columbus,   Royal  Arcanum  and  Elks. 


NORTH  ADAMS,  MASSACHUSETTS 


Cheshire   Inn 

Cheshire,  Mass  . 


All  Electric  Cars  of  the  Berk- 
shire Street  Railway,  running 
between  North  Adams  and 
Pittsfield,  pass  this  House. 


A  Pleasant  Trip  for 
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HOS.  F.  CALLAHAN,  Prop. 


OR,  F.  G.  HALL 

Harvard 
University 

DJSNTIST 

Dowlin  Block 
North  Adams 


H.  MORRIER 

Custom  Shoe  Shaker 

Shoes    Resoled    While    You 
Wait  by  up=to=date  Machinery 

21  Center  St. 

North  Adams 


EDWIN  B.  BARTLETT 

President  and  Treasurer 

B.  H.  ANGLIN 

Vice-President  and  Manager 


Amsdell 
Brewing 
Company 

ALE  and  PORTER 


0.  W.  WELCH 
Distributor 


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Hon.  Winthrop  Murray  Crane 


U.    S.     SENATOR 

FROM  MASSACHUSETTS 


NORTH  ADAMS,  MASSACHUSETTS 


Hon.  Geo.  P.  Lawrence 


REPRESENTATIVE 

IST.  CONGRESSIONAL  DISTRICT 


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Richmond*  'Wellington  Jtotel EUROPEAN 

W.  H.  WINGATE,  Manager 


STRICTLY  FIREPROOF-BATH-ALL  MODERN  APPOINTMENTS-IT  WILL  WOT  BURN. 


I  BERGNERl  EMGLE  BREWING  CO. 


OF  PHILADELPHIA 


Brewers  of  the  Famous 

Philadelphia  Ales 


Only  at  the  RICHMOND-WELLINGTON      9 


John  L*  Thompson   Sons  &  Co 

"Wholesale  ^Druggists 
159,  161,  163,  165,  J67  River  Street,  TROY,  N.  Y. 


PROPRIETORS  OF 


DR.  ISAAC  THOMPSON'S 
Celebrated    &ye     u)ater 


A  WONDERFUL  REMEDY  FOR    ALL   DISEASES  OF  THE  EYES. 


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The  Berkshire  Life  Insurance  Co. 


Pittsfield,  Mass. 


Established  I85J 


Takes  an  advanced  step  in  the  interest  of  the  policy-holder  by  the 
adoption  of  the  following  liberal  features  in  its  new  policy  contract 


Low  premium  rates. 

Large  surrender  values. 

Dividends  at  the  end  of  each  policy  year. 

Thirty-one  days  of  grace  in  payment  of  all  premiums 
after  the  first  year. 

Paid-up  insurance  or  cash  surrender  value  or  extend- 
ed insurance  after  two  years'  premiums  have 
been  paid. 

Loans  for  the  full  cash  surrender  value. 


Policy  payable  in  one  sum  or  in  installments  for 
term  of  years. 

Policy  incontestable,  and  no  restrictions  upon  resi- 
dence, travel  and  occupation,  after  the  first 
policy  year,  except  as  to  military  or  naval  service 
in  time  of  war. 

Right  of  the  insured  to  change  the  beneficiary. 

Liberal  re-instatement  privileges. 

Every  effort  has  been  made  to  make  this  new  policy 
the  very  perfection  in  a  life  insurance  contract. 


For  farther  information  apply  to  John  B*  Stonet  General  Agent, 
Company's  Building,  Pittsfield,  Mass. 

JAMES  W.  MAHAR,  Bank  Bldg.,  North  Adams,  Mass. 

JAMES  H.  FALLON,  Special  Agent,       Williamstown,  Mass. 


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TheMM 
Wilson 


Lynch  Bros.,  Props. 
Slorth  2ldams,          -  SHassachusetts 


Rooms  with  Private  Baths  and  En  Suite 

Advance  Notice  of   Intended   Arrival   is   Desirable 
Sample  Rooms 

Garages  Conveniently  Near 

'Bus  to  All  Trains 


V. 

NORTH  ADAMS,  MASSACHUSETTS 


Capital  $200,000 


INCORPORATED  1904 


Surplus  $50,000 


North  Adams  Trust  Company 


North  Adams,  Massachusetts 


FRANK  S.  RICHARDSON,  Prcs. 


R.  A.  J.  HEWAT,  Vice-Prcs. 


GEO.  A.  MacDONALD,  Treas. 


Safety  Deposit  Boxes  for  Nominal  Yearly  Rental 

Interest  Paid  on  Time  Accounts.     Correct  Check  Accounts  Solicited 

Acts  as  Trustee,  Receiver,  Guardian,  Administrator,  Executor,  or  in  any  Fiduciary  Capacity 


H.  TorreyCady 
John  E.  Magenis 

John  H.  Waterhouse 


DIRECTORS 
C.  H.  Cutting 

Frank  S.  Richardson 
A.  C.  Weber 


James  E.  Hunter 
W.  H.  Sperry 

R.  A.  J.  Hewat 


A    STRONG    CONSERVATIVE    INSTITUTION 


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Gold  Medal    Tivoli  Beer 


Surpassing  in  quality  and  unrivaled  in 
flavor,  Tivoli  is  the  ideal  malt  and 
hops  beverage. 

No  other  beer  ever  quite  satisfies  the 
"knowing  ones"  who  have  once  tried 
Tivoli.  It  certainly  is  good.  /.  /. 


Springfield  Breweries   Co, 

SPRINGFIELD,      MASSACHUSETTS 


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Former  residents  returning 
to  North  Adams  will  know 
the  North  Adams  Savings 
Bank*  It  has  been  here 
for  sixty-one  years 


North  Adams 
Savings  Bank 

86  Main  St. 


Complimentary 


NORTH  ADAMS,  MASSACHUSETTS 


WINDSOR  PRINT  WORKS 

NORTH  ADAMS,  MASS. 

High  class  goods  is  the  aim  of  the  Windsor  Works,  and  they 
have  attained  a  reputation  during  the  past  two  years  under  the 
present  management  that  was  never  equalled  in  the  old  days  when 
Windsor  fabrics  were  among  the  most  popular  in  the  country. 
With  proper  equipment,  expert  help  in  all  departments,  and  a  man- 
agement that  knows  how,  the  best  that  can  be  taken  off  cloth  print- 
ing machines  is  sent  out  to  fill  the  order. 

THE  MANUFACTURING  ORGANIZATION 
is  unusually  loyal  and  competent,  and  the  60,000,000  yards  of  cloth 
printed  and  finished  each  year  are  made  on  honor,  and  more  often 
than  otherwise  just  ahead  of  competitors  in  novelty  of  design  and 
attractive  coloring. 

Nothing  else  could  be  expected  when  the  happy  combination 
of  executive  and  manufacturing  is  analyzed.  Walter  Ferguson, 
the  president,  and  Alfred  L.  Ferguson,  the  treasurer,  are  able 
financiers  and  leading  men  of  affairs,  but  it  falls  to  Charles  M.  How- 


A  Battery  of  Printing  Machines 

ard,  the  vice-president,  and  his  able  son  to  direct  the  practical 
productive  end  of  the  business.  Mr.  Howard  is  an  old  and  exper- 
ienced print  goods  manufacturer,  having  been  connected  with  the 
Windsor  Works  for  many  years,  and  the  styling  and  selling  are  under 
his  personal  direction. 


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WINDSOR^PRINT  WORKS 

David  A.  Russell,  the  manager  at  the  works,  started  in  there  as 
a  roll  boy,  in  1877,  went  to  the  office,  and  to  superintendent,  and 
is  now  the  manufacturing  manager,  and  a  man  who  does  things. 
His  superintendent,  Joseph  Bennett,  has  been  at  the  plant  since 
1896,  and  has  risen  from  color-mixer  to  superintendent.  The  depart- 
ment foremen  or  overseers  are  all  experienced  men,  and  the  help 
rank  high  in  ability  and  intelligence,  and  are  well  paid  for  their 
services.  Much  of  the  help  is  native,  having  replaced  fathers  and 
mothers  in  the  works,  and  labor  differences  are  unheard  of.  This 
tells  the  story  of  the  productive  organization,  and  it  is  now  in  order 
to  discuss  some  of  their  output. 

Cotton  flannel  is  an  important  product  of  the  Windsor  Works, 
and  the  printed  effects  of  this  character  are  unexcelled.  Here  the 
first  napping  of  printed  cotton  flannels  in  the  United  States  was 
started,  and  each  year  finds  improvement  in  the  process,  more 
intricate  and  handsome  designs,  and  a  growing  public  demand  for 


Section  of  Bleaching  Kiers 

the  fabrics.  The  variety  of  patterns  and  their  skillful  execution 
speak  volumes  for  the  inventive  minds  responsible  for  their  incep- 
tion and  the  distinctive  feature  is  originality,  a  sure  winner,  and 
no  department  store  line  is  complete  without  these  goods. 

MERCERIZED  GOODS 

are  another  leading  specialty  of  the  Windsor  Works,  and  the  most 
pleasing  product  of  the  mercerized  goods  is  their  cottosilks. 


NORTH  ADAMS,  MASSACHUSETTS 


POPULAR  WINDSOR  LINES 

Vicugnas,  elektra,  Eskimo  fleece  and  Floconne,  printed  flan- 
nelettes in  striking  patterns  are  other  lines  of  popular  old  favorites 
in  blacks,  blues,  reds,  and  almost  an  endless  variety  of  standards 
and  specialties,  shown  by  the  selling  house  in  New  York,  keep  the 
fourteen  machines  and  the  auxiliary  equipment  in  full  operation 
not  alone  during  the  working  day,  but  much  of  the  time  well  into 
the  night.  The  plant  covers  nine  acres,  all  in  one  enclosure,  and 
consists  of  twenty-two  brick  and  four  frame  buildings,  with  an 
abundant  water  supply  for  all  manufacturing  purposes,  obtained 


Preparing  Samples  of  Windsor  Prints 

from  the  north  branch  of  the  Hoosac  river,  the  Windsor  pond,  the 
Houghton  and  Hall  Street  streams.  The  Windsor  pond  covers 
thirty  acres,  with  a  capacity  of  about  80,000,000  gallons,  at  an  ele- 
vation of  206  feet  above  the  mill. 

THE  PRINT  WORKS. 

The  print  works  is  a  completely  equipped  dyeing,  printing  and 
bleaching  establishment,  with  fourteen  printing  machines  and  ca- 
pacity for  bleaching  thirty-five  tons  of  cloth  per  day.  The  machinery 
is  all  modern,  in  splendid  condition,  and  the  mill  is  fitted  with  all 
the  improved  accessories  for  turning  out  this  product  at  the  lowest 
manufacturing  cost.  The  finishing  machinery,  especially,  is  of 
great  diversity,  capable  of  finishing  all  kinds  of  standard  prints  in 
the  market,  the  napping  of  cotton  flannels,  for  which  the  Windsor 
Company  has  long  been  famous,  and  the  finishing  of  the  finest 
and  sheerest  of  dress  goods. 


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James  Hunter  Machine  Co. 


North  Adams,  Mass, 


NORTH  ADAMS,  MASSACHUSETTS 


Preparation  and  Finishing 

Machinery  for  Woolens 

and  Worsteds 

WOOL   OPENERS  SELF  FEEDS 

WOOL  WASHERS 
"  THE  STONE  "  WOOL  DRYER  CONE  DUSTERS 


SOAPING  MACHINES 

FULLING  MILLS 

CLOTH  WASHERS 

PIECE  DIE  KETTLES 


CARBONIZING  MACHINERY 


GARNETT  MACHINES  METALLIC  BREASTS 


COMPLETE   BATTING  EQUIPMENT 

FOR  THE   MANUFACTURE   OF  COTTON  BATTING 


We  want  every   Overseer   to  have  our  Bulletins. 
A  postal  brings  them. 


Jas.  Hunter  Machine  Co. 

North  Adams,  Mass. 


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Our  Specialties:   Equal  Lunch==Crimp  Butter 

H,  W,  CLARK  BISCUIT  CO, 

MANUFACTURERS  OF 

Fa?fayinand  Biscuits  anb  Crackers 


TELEPHONE  48 


NORTH  ADAMS,  MASS. 


H.  W.  CLARK  &  CO. 

Wholesale  Grocers 


North  Adams, 


Massachusetts 


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North  Adams  Beef  and 
Produce  Co. 

North  Adams  and  Pittsfield,  Mass. 


Cheshire  Beef  and  Produce  Co. 

Keene,  N.  H. 


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Wholesale  Heef  and  Produce  Dealers 

Best   Facilities  and    Outlet  for  Fruit  and  Vegetables.      Potatoes   from   oar 

own  warehouses  in  Maine. 


W.  C.  COUGHLIN 
KEENE,  N.  H. 


H.  J.  COUGHLIN 

NORTH  ADAMS,  MASS. 


J.  M.  COUGHLIN 
NORTH  ADAMS,  MASS 


NORTH  ADAMS,   MASSACHUSETTS 


If  a  man  can  write  a  better  book,  preach  a  better  sermont  or 
make  a  better  mousetrap  than  his  neighbor,  though  he  build  his 
house  in  the  woods,  the  world  will  make  a  beaten  path,  to  his 
door*  — Emerson 


Within  sixteen  months  after  starting  our  new  mill,  we  had  to 
double  our  capacity  in  order  to  supply  our  customers* 

FEDERAL  MILLING  CO*, 
Lockport,  N*  Y. 


North  Adams  Beef  &  Produce  Co* 

DISTRIBUTORS 

For    Western    Massachusetts    and   Vermont 


Cheshire  Beef  &  Produce  Company 

KEENE,  N.  H. 

Distributors  for  New  Hampshire 


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BRANCH   OFFICES  AND  REPRESENTATIVES 


THE  WORLD  OVER 


Seo.  S,  3teith  Co. 


Makers  of  the  International 


Walk=Over 
Shoes 


FOR    MEN   AND    WOMEN 


HOME  OFFICE,  CAMPELLO,  MASS.,  U.  S.  A. 


DZo.  §  factory,  5lorth  Aidants,  Sttass- 


NORTH  ADAMS,  MASSACHUSETTS 


O.  W.  DEAN 


C  E.  SPENCER 


DEAN=SPENCER  LEATHER  CO. 


itftanufacturers    of: 


Tancy  Leathers  and  Specialties 

NORTH  ADAMS,       =        =        =        MASSACHUSETTS 


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Business  Accounts 


What  is  a  Small  Account  ? 

One  Hundred  Dollars  deposited  with  The  North  Adams 
National  Bank  will  afford  you  the  convenience  of  paying  your 
bills  by  check,  which  gives  you  the  indisputable  receipt,  a 
strong  bank  reference  and  identification. 

The  services  of  the  Officers  and  Directors  are  cheerfully 
given  during  bank  hours  to  advise  with  depositors.  Deposits 
received  by  mail. 


North   Adams 
National  Bank 

Interest  Accounts 

If  you  have  no  Savings  Account  let  us  fit  you  out  in  our 
Interest  Department.  Even  though  you  begin  in  a  small 
way,  if  you  add  to  the  account  regularly,  the  result  will 
astonish  you. 

North  Adams  National  Bank 

W.  H.  PRITCHARD,  President 
Qeo.  P.  Lawrence,  Vice=President  A.  E.  Spencer,  Cashier 


NORTH  ADAMS,  MASSACHUSETTS 


A    BERKSHIRE    INSTITUTION    FOUNDED    IN    THE    YEAR    J840 


Jjrt  EFLECTING    for    nearly  three- 

T*\     quarters   of    a     century    the    life 

of     its      community;      recording, 

step  by  step,  its  growth  and  de- 
velopment from  the  hazy  days  of 
farm  and  village  life,  through  the  period 
of  industrial  awakening  and  expansion 
to  the  present  era  of  municipal  progress 
and  prosperity;  growing  as  its  com- 
munity grew,  broadening  as  it  broad- 
ened, progressing  from  generation  to 
generation  with  the  progress  of  its 
people;  crystalizing  in  its  columns 
their  opinions,  standing  according  to  its 
lights  for  their  ideals;  welding  through 
the  years  bonds  of  intimacy  that  hold 
today  with  the  strength  of  family  tra- 
dition,—  The  Transcript,  passing  the 
ordinary  limitations  of  newspaper  defi- 
nition, stands  deep-rooted,  as  an  insti- 
tution of  the  soil,  wide  spread  with  the 
vigor  of  uninterrupted  growth. 

Read  in  nearly  every  North  Berk- 
shire home  where  a  newspaper  is  read 
today,  The  Transcript  has  year  by  year, 
constantly  and  systematically,  built 
upon  this  foundation  of  traditional 
strength  along  lines  of  advanced  news- 
paper making  to  a  degree  that  has  gained 
for  it  in  the  broad  field  of  newspaper 
activity  exceptional  recognition  as  a 
unique  publication  in  its  class.  It  is 
by  this  fixed  policy  of  anticipating  the 
trend  of  modern  newspaper  develop- 
ment, and  by  its  own  inherent  strength 
alone  that  the  Transcript's  growth  is 
from  year  to  year  limited  only  by  the 
growth  of  the  community  itself. 

By  its  own  inherent  strength;  and 
that  strength  is  concentrated  in  one 
element — the  absolute! 
the  people. 


From  the  days  when,  as  a  marked 
leader  of  the  provincial  press  in  the 
East,  the  old  Weekly  Transcript  launched 
the  thunder  of  Black  Republican  doc- 
trines from  the  pen  of  the  late  Judge 
James  T.  Robinson  and  the  calm, 
judicial  utterances  of  the  late  United 
States  Senator  Henry  L.  Dawes  (two 
of  its  notable  editors)  to  be  spread 
broadcast  through  quotations  in  the 
metropolitan  press,  to  the  time  when 
the  Transcript  of  today,  under  changed 
conditions,  burst  these  same  party 
bounds  and,  facing  bitter  enmity  and 
political  defeat,  declared  against  po- 
litical dictation  in  the  conduct  of  the 
town  and  city  affairs  of  its  people,  the 
Transcript's  motives  have  never  been 
questioned  by  the  rank  and  file  of  its 
readers. 

It  is  recognized  today  as  the  only 
newspaper  ever  published  in  Northern 
Berkshire  whose  statements  and  opin- 
ions could  be  absolutely  relied  upon  by 
all  classes  of  people  as  uninfluenced  by 
private  interests  or  affiliations. 

Such  has  been  the  broad  history  of 
North  Berkshire's  newspaper,  and  such 
its  reward — the  confidence  of  the 
people,  always  increasing  as  each  suc- 
cessive misunderstanding  is  dispelled 
in  the  recognition  of  a  single-minded 
purpose.  Its  material  progress — its  in- 
auguration as  a  daily,  its  admission  to 
membership  in  the  Associated  Press,  the 
greatest  news  gathering  agency  in  the 
world,  its  constant  development  of 
special  features,  its  introduction  of 
half-tone  illustration  in  its  own  plant 
as  a  supplement  to  the  news — all  this 
isrepresented  in  the  Transcript  of 
i  xtgd<ij<gSjjScr^'*ll'^3paPer  product  in  ad- 
vance of  its  own  requirements. 


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1  Q  01     This  store  has  the  reputation  as  being  the  leading  drug  store  in  this      1 Q  []  Q 
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WALL 
BROS, 

Clothiers 

Shoe  sts 


New  Location 

KIMBELL  BLOCK8, 

81  to  83  Main   St. 


NORTH  ADAMS,  MASSACHUSETTS 


McCraw   &   Tatro's 

"The  Store  Where  Quality  Reigns  Supreme" 

North  Adams'  Most  Popular  Trading  Resort 

In  Ail  That  Pertains  to   Ladies*  Wearing  Apparel 

And  the  Center  of  Fashion  at  All  Times 

We  carry,  at  every  season  of  the  year,  Fashion's  latest  and  most  ap- 
proved-of  styles  in  Ladies'  Wearing  Apparel,  and  you  will  always  find 
our  assortment  of  styles  and  prices  the  most  pleasing  part  of  your 
shopping  expedition. 

Fashion's  Favorite  Creations  for  Fall  Are 
Now  Ready— May  We  ShowThem  to  You? 


A.Simmons 


Funeral  Director 
and    Embalmcr 


T.    C.   O'CONNOR 


Agent  Murray  Mine  Coal 

Telephone  Connection 

North  Adams,   Massachusetts 


Walter  E.  Chase 


Richard  L.  Francis 


ARLORS-38-40  BANK  STREET 

Telephone  256-2 

RESIDENCE— 27  ARNOLD    PL, 

Telephone  256-3 

ESTABLISHED      1891 


W.  E.  Chase  &  Co. 

The  Up=to=Date 
GENERAL  STORE 

Where  You  Can  Get  Fair  Play 
ONE  PRICE  TO  ALL 

Briggsville,     =     =     =     Mass. 


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Interior  view  showing  the  lower  section  of  the  Clothing  and  Furnishing  Department 
with  the  Shoe  Department  in  the  extreme  lower  end 


Lonergan  &  Bissaillon 


Head-to-Foot 
Clothiers 


Established 
1886 


W.  E. 
E.  Bi 


Lonergan 
ssailon 


Main 
main 


REN  TON'S    BAKERY 

Bread  and  Cakes  at  wholesale  and  retail.  Established  April  15th,  1898.  Three  years 
later  an  increase  in  business  called  for  larger  quarters,  still  with  three  times  more  space  il 
proved  t°.€L§mallv  &_.§*  te_pn  H.olden  street  was  bought  and  the  above  building  was  erectec 
and  equipped  with  patent  ovens  and  all  the  latest  and  most  up-to-date  machinery  knowi 

is  eight 


NORTH  ADAMS,  MASSACHUSETTS 


A.    JAFFE 

DRY  GOODS 


A.  JAFFE 


The  mercantile  history  of  North  Adams 
is  not  complete  without  giving  due  men- 
tion to  the  concern  of  A.  Jaffe,  one  of  the 
most  progressive  stores  of  our  city.  No 
store  has  displayed  more  hustle  and  ap- 
preciation of  the  natural  advantages  of  • 
this  city  than  the  above.  Today,  through 
the  successful  efforts  of  the  proprietor,  it 
is  considered  as  complete  and  popular  a 
concern  as  the  city  provides. 

In  connection  with  the  ordinary  dry 
goods  and  department  store,  his  specialty 
shop  has  met  with  the  commendation  of 
the  woman  shoppers. 

Twenty  years  ago  in  the  year  1891,  Mr. 
Jaffe  opened  his  store  at  22  and  24  Mar- 
shall street  with  the  practical  and  ex- 
perienced ideas  to  cater  to  the  people  of 
North  Adams.  Gradually  he  enlarged  his 
store  and  extended  his  business  until  in 
1908  he  was  compelled  to  seek  larger  and 
more  commodious  quarters.  On  June  22, 
he  moved  to  his  new  and  larger  store  at 
35  main  street,  where  today  the  success 
meted  out  to  him  is  proportionate  to  his 
efforts  to  please  and  satisfy  the  people. 

His  Dry  Goods  Specialty  Shop  and  other 
departments  of  his  store  are  patronized  by 
all  classes,  and  from  present  indications 
he  will  have  to  seek  new  quarters  in  the 
near  future. 


LaFORCE  &  QAUDETTE 

Wall  Paper  and  Paints 

Candidates    for    your    Painting  and   Paper    Hanging 
Our  Platform — First=Class  Work  at  Reasonable  Prices 

56  Center  Street,  North  Adams 


River  Street 


Drug  Store 


Carl  M.  Farley 


North  Adams, 


Mass. 


Berkshire  Monumental  Works 

MEANY  &  WALSH,  Props, 
Monuments  and   Headstones 

J5  EAGLE  STREET 

North  Adams  -  -          Mass. 


OLD  HOME  WEEK  SOUVENIR 


meet  H)e  at  the 
Fountain 

The  most 
delicious 

Sodas 

and 

Sundaes 

in  the  city 

I       Farley's 
Drug   Store 

9  Eagle  St. 


Cor.  Summer  & 
Ashland  Streets 


North  Adams 
Mass. 


The  Ballston  Refrigerating 
Storage  Company 

Receivers,    Handlers    and    Storers    of 

Fruits,  Produce,  Butter, 

Eggs,  Cheese,  Etc* 

Telephone  335 
Morris  Street         -  North  Adams 


NORTH  ADAMS,  MASSACHUSETTS 


j.  w.  KEVLIN 

Steak,  Chop    and    Oyster    House 

Twenty  Years  in  the  Business 

Cor.  State  and  Summer  Sts. 


Fleischmann's 

Compressed 

Yeast 

HAS  NO   EQUAL 


Geo.  A.  Grounds    North  Adams 

North  Adams        Pittsfield  Blank  Book 

Company 


Largest  Distributors  in 

Western  Massachusetts 

of  All  Kinds  of  Fruit 

Produce,  Butter, 
Eggs,  Poultry  and  Fish 


14  Eagle  Street 
North  Adams,  Mass, 


Manufacturers  of  All  Kinds  of 
Blank  Books,  Loose  Leaf 

Ledgers,  Etc. 
Books  Bound  to  Stay  Bound 


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W.  C.  ELLIS 


Manufacturer  of 

Ladies'  Shirt  Waists 


264  State  Street"! 
North    Adams,    Mass. 


1882 


1909 


Orders  at  all  Hours  Promptly  Attended  to  at  Reasonable  Terms. 

Furniture  Upholstered  and  Repaired  in  the  Best  Manner 

13  Union  Street,  North  Adams,  Mass* 

Residence  33  Hudson  Street  Telephone  Connection 


JOYCE'S 


"A   Distinctive  Difference 
in  Joyce's  Millinery/'  .  .  , 


HELEN  L  JOYCE 

77  Main  Street 


E.J.Fero&Co. 

Sxclusive 


16  Ashland  St.,  North  Adams 


NORTH  ADAMS,  MASSACHUSETTS 


Morrissey  &  Casey 


WHOLESALE 
AND  RETAIL 


Liquor  Dealers 


26-30  Main  Street 
North  Adams,      -      Mass. 

Parker  Garage  & 
Machine  Co. 

A  u  tomobi le   S  torage , 
Repairs  and  Supplies 

flachine     and     Experimental    Work 

Telephone  164-1 

5!  West  lain  Street 

North  Adams,   Hass. 


Always  Welcome 
at  the  . 


QREYLOCK 
HOTEL 

Adams,  Mass. 


THOMAS  P.  WELCH 

Prop. 


Visit  Us  Old  Home  Week 

Take  an  Adams  Car 

Berkshire 
Credit  Co. 

FAMILY    CLOTHIERS 

106  Main  Street 
North  Adams 


PETER 
FOGG 

Piano 
Instructor 

North  Adams 


Teacher'*  Certificate 
Clavier  Piano  School 
New  York 


H.S.Katsh 

Ready-to-Wear 

CLOTHING 

For  Men,  Ladies 
and  Children 

4  to  6  MARSHALL  ST. 
NORTH    ADAMS 


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NORTH  ADAMS,  MASSACHUSETTS 


Telephone  and  Electric  Lights  in  Every  Room 
Right  off  the  Car  Line  on  Bank  Street 


Right  up  from  the  Depot 
Opposite   the  City    Hall 


THE  BERKSHIRE 


EUROPEAN  AND  AMERICAN  PLAN 


New  Up-to-Date  Commercial  Hotel 
First-Class  Livery  Attached 


Contains  94  Bedrooms,  25  Baths 
Cafe  and  Sample  Rooms 


CORNER  OF  BANK  AND  SUMMER  STS.      NORTH  ADAMS,  MASSACHUSETTS 


ROBERT    GREEN 

Clothing,  Gent's  Furnishings. 
Shoes,  Hats,  Caps 

25     CENTER     STREET 
FOR    THE  BEST  GOODS 

and  lowest  prices  in  Groceries,  Fresh 
Meats  and  Fresh  Fish,  call  at  the 

TROY    CASH    GROCERY 

J.  F.  RUDNICK,  Prop. 
43-45  Eagle  St.,  Tel.  228-2          North  Adams 


TRY. 


Conlon's  Black 
Monogram  Cigar 

While  in  Town 
T    F   PON!  ON    41  MAIN  STREET 

)•   I1*  VA/LNJUJIN,        NORTH  ADAMS 

GREEN     BROS. 

WHOLESALE 
CONFECTIONERS 

58  Center  St.  North  Adams 


OLD  HOME  WEEK  SOUVENIR 


MAX  WEIN 

Nrro  $ork 


GATSLICK  BLOCK,  77  MAIN  ST. 
North  Adams,  Mass.         Tel.  24  1  -  1  2 


1893 


1909 


H.  A.  SHERMAN 


15  Eagle  St.,  North  Adams,  Mass. 


S  P  R  U  I  L  L'  S 

THE    STORE    WITH    THE    GOODS 
Crockery  Department  Furniture  Department 


Here  you  will  find  an  abundant  variety 
of  Fancy  China  and  open  stock  Dinner 
Ware  at 

Lowest  Possible  Prices 


Picture  Department 

Everything  that  is  choice  in  Pictures, 
both  framed  and  unframed. 

Framing  to  order  our  specialty.  Work 
done  in  our  own  shop. 

Positively  the  Lowest  Prices 


Buy  Furniture  that  is  right — why  ? 
Because  you  look  at  it  for  a  long  time. 
You  are  always  sure  of  the  correct  thing  at 
Spruill's. 


Wall  Paper  Department 

The  selection  of  room  coverings  today  is 
considered  an  art,  and  surely  there  is  no 
place  where  the  artistic  is  more  easily 
demonstrated  than  in  the  selection  of  these 
goods.  Our  lines  are  correct  and  prices 
low. 


ELECTRICAL    DEPARTMENT 

A  postal  or  telephone  call  and  our  superintendent  will  supply  you  with  any  infor- 
mation you  may  desire  regarding  an  equipment  of  anything  that  is  electrical. 


Hoosac  Savings 
Bank  Building 


J.  B.  SPRUILL 


North  Adams 
Massachusetts 


NORTH  ADAMS,  MASSACHUSETTS 


DRINK 


5and  Springs 
Ginger  Ale 


It's  Elegant 


Thos.  J.Reynolds     H.P.SCHELL 


Leader  of  Reynolds'  Band  and  Orchestra, 
Musical  Director  Empire  Theater. 


receive  limited  number  of  pupils  on 

Violin,  Banjo  Mandolin, 
and  Guitar 


Address    Box    54  \     North    Adams 

Studio—  Dowlin  Block,  Main  Street 
Rooms  524  and  525 


Manufacturer  and  dealer  in 

Fine  Monumental  Work 

Granite  and  Marble 

Office  and  Works -So.  Church   St. 
Next  to  South  View  Cemetery 

Pittsfield  Cars  Pass  the  Door 
Telephone  397-  \ 2  North  Adams 


Smoke  7-30=4     =    -    -    10 c  Cigar 


OLD  HOME  WEEK  SOUVENIR 


1872  I9O9 

E.  VADNAIS 

Manufacturer  of 

LIGHT  CARRIAGES 
AND  SLEIGHS 

Easiness  and  Heavy  Wagons  Made 
to  Order  at  Short  Notice 

Repairing  in  all  its  branches  at  reasonable 
terms.  All  work  warranted  as  represented. 
Factory  Wagons,  Harness,  Robes,  Blankets 
Whips,  Paints,  Oils,  Hardware  Supplies 

.eading    Carriage,   Wagon   and    Harness    Manufacturer 
in  Berkshire  County 

6  CENTER  STREET  NORTH  ADAMS,  MASS. 


Miner  Street 


Meats,  Groceries  and   Vegetables 

Telephone  98-1  North  Adams,  flass. 


NORTH  ADAMS,   MASSACHUSETTS 


JOHN  TOOMEY 

Jiome  Made  Candy  Daily 

Delicious  Ice  Cream  40c  a  quart. 

College  Ices  5c  and  lOc 

Fine  line  of  Chocolates 

'rushed  Fruit  Ice  Cream  Soda  5c 

33  Main  St.,      North  Adams 
WALTER    S.    EVANS 

Established  1*7* 

(Merchant  tailor 

TRY  THE  NEW  WAIST  ADJUSTER 
ON  PANTS 

351  Main  St.  N.Adams 


Cutting  Corner 
Jonsorial  Parlor 


E.J.Rougeau, 
Prop. 


BEST  WORKMANSHIP  IN  THE  CITY 


Upstairs  over  Cuttings 


Proud  floats  the  flag  thro'out  a  prosperous  land. 
Beneath  its  folds  our  sturdy  yeomen  stand: 
Farmer,  merchant,  men  of  ev'ry  craft. 
Drink  good  health  to  our  Old  Home  Week. 

A.  A.  LEE 

The  Grocer 
256  Eagle  Street 

North  Adams,  Mass. 
Groceries.     Tea  and  Coffee,    Patent  Medicines 


KODAKS      CAMERAS       PHOTO  SUPPLIES 


PICTURES  AND  PICTURE  FRAMES 


14  Eagle  Street 


E.  B.  LANFAIR 

Fun  Line  Family  Groceries 

All  orders  delivered  promptly. 

Fresh  Fruit  and  Vegetables  a  Specialty 

GIVE  US  A  TRIAL 

144  HOUGHTON  STREET 

Telephone  352-12 

NORTH  ADAMS,  MASS. 

THE  PLACE  TO  TRADE  AT 

Where  you  are  positive  of  getting 
the  best  and  highest  quality  of 
goods  on  the  market.  Also  the 
prices  that  are  right.  Prompt 
attention  given  to  telephone  orders. 

Telephone  1  18-2 

Berkshire   Cash   Grocery 

H.  CHAIN,  PROP. 
10  Marshall  Street,  Near  Main 

WE  PLAN  OUR  WORK  THOROUGHLY,    THEN 
THOROUGHLY   WORK  OUR  PLAN. 

THE  BYAM  PRINTING  COMPANY 

S*riniing~S$ook  binding 

308  Dowlin  Block,  Main  Street 

NORTH    ADAMS,    MASS. 

A.  N.  Harris 

Artistic  Picture 
Framing 

Unframed  Pictures,  Cabinet  Work 
Pianos  and  Mahogany  Refinished 

21O  Dowlin  Block 

North  Adams,  Mass. 

L.  DE  MARCO 

Custom  Shoe  Maker 

Fine  Repairing 
Ladies'  and  Gents  Shine]Parlor 

Cor.  Main  and  Ashland    Streets, 
North  Adams. 


OLD  HOME  WEEK  SOUVENIR 


M.    S.   Southwick 

High=Class 
Millinery  Goods 

Established   1866 

Corner  Main   and    Ashland   Streets 
North  Adams,  Mass. 


Miss  McKee 


Producer  of  Correct 

MILLIN E RY 

Bradford  Block,  Main  Street 
North  Adams,  Mass. 


DR.  QEO.  W.  DOX      Miss  M.  E.  Hatton 


DENTISTRY 

In  Its  Highest  Jlrt 

NORTH     ADAMS,     MASS. 

SPENCER  BROS. 

Up-to-Date 

T^eal  Estate  Agents 
Fire  Insurance 

J04  Main  Street,         North  Adams 


Fine  Millinery 


DAVENPORT  BLOCK 


102  Main  St.,  North  Adams 


Dr.  Laurence  Ladd 


VEN6U& 


Davenport  Block,     98  1-2     Main    Street 
North   Adams,   Mass. 


L.    M.     HURD      Clark  &  Gadsby 

Dealer  in 

Musical  Merchandise 

Potted  Plants,  Cttt  Flowers,  Cameras  GROCERIES  & 

and  Photographic  Goods,   Souvenir 
Post  Cards,  and   Sheet  Music,  Etc. 

TELEPHONE  363-12 

JO  ASHLAND   ST.,    NORTH   ADAMS 


28  Dover  Street,  North  Adams 


Gagnon  &  Jacques 


MILLINERY 


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Mrs.  R.  Simons 

NEW  YORK 
MILLINERY 

Leading    store    in   the   city. 
Latest  and  up-to-date  styles 
nmed  Hats  at  lowest 

MAIN  STREET 


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Louis 
De  Pace 

Custom  Tailoring 

Ladies  Tailored 
Garments  a  specialty 

Tel.  384-14 

80  Summer  Street 


AN  HONEST  BREW 

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Old-Fashioned  Ways  Mark  Every  Step  in  Brewing      ^ 


HOUGHTON'S  VIENNA 
OLD-TIME  LAGER  BEER 


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No  stinting  of  Hops  or  Malt — no  short  cuts 
— nothing,  either  in  material  or  method,  but 
the  best.  And  the  beer  shows  it 

T,  J*  Dempsey,  Agent 

A.  J.  Houghton  Co.,  Boston 


Pittsf ield,  Berkshire  County,  Mass* 


Sfcaplewood 

American  Plan 

*         Open  from  June  1st 
to  November  1st  & 


Booklet  and  Auto  Route  Map  on 
Application 


T  A.  W,  PLUMB,    Proprietor 


OF     COURSE? 

Yoor  Old  Home  Week  Va- 
cation would  be  incomplete          *$p 
without  an  Automobile  ride 

Central  Jluto 
Station  Co. 

PITTSFIELD 

have  cars  for  RENTAL 
and  are  sales  agents  for 
Berkshire  County  for 

PIERCE-ARROWS       STERNS-DURYEAS 
POPE-HARTFORD  and  BUICKS 

RATES    REASONABLE 


*  The  Grandest  Autumn  Trip 
In  the  World  Is  to  the 
Famous :::::: 

White  Mountains 

of  New  Hampshire 

Scenery  Unequalled 

Excellent  Hotel  Service 

All  Kinds  of  Sports,  Including 

Golf,  Tennis,  Driving 
Tramping*and  Mountain  Climbing 


INVIGORATING' ATMOSPHERE          COOL  NIGHTS 

Purest  of§ Water  From  CountlesttCrystal  Springs 

A  DELIGHTFUL  VACATION'REGION 

WITHIN  EASY  REACHKOF  ALL 


Send  two  cents  in  stamps  fof  booklet, 
"White  Moan  tains"  of  [New  Hampshire." 
Address  Genl.  Passenger  DepU  North 
Station,  Boston,  Mass. 


D.  J.  FLANDERS 
P.T.M. 


C  M.  HURT 
G.P.A. 


EXCELSIOR   PRINTING  CO. 
NORTH     ADAMS,    MASS. 


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